Buildkite outage, 25 August 2026

Buildkite service disruption

Started
Resolved
26 Aug 2026, 00:18 UTC (after 1 h 22 min)
Impact
Major
Affected
REST API, Web, GitHub Commit Status Notifications, Email Notifications, Agent API, Remote MCP Server, Slack Notifications, Job Queue, Webhook Notifications

Last update from Buildkite

## Service Impact Customers experienced a site-wide disruption affecting the Buildkite web interface, REST API, Agent API, job queue, and notifications. The disruption began at 22:47 UTC and continued until 23:16 UTC. During this period, all customers were unable to create new builds via the UI or REST API, and job dispatch was delayed. We continued to receive webhooks from source control providers, but processing of those webhooks was delayed. New build processing resumed at 23:10 UTC and the accumulated backlog of work was processed by 23:16 UTC. Some builds that were already in progress at the beginning of the impact period remained temporarily stuck until services recovered. Some cust...

27 Aug 2026, 23:53 UTC

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