Buildkite outage, 19 October 2026

Delayed Hosted Agents instance creation

Started
Resolved
19 Oct 2026, 15:45 UTC
Impact
Minor

Is this still happening?

No. Buildkite marked this incident resolved on 19 Oct 2026, 15:45 UTC.

Right now: Buildkite reports all systems operational. (as of 26 Oct, 03:45 UTC) Live Buildkite status

Last update from Buildkite

We received reports from a few customers that Hosted Agent jobs were delayed in starting. We investigated and found this related to a GitHub incident with webhooks that caused throttling in Hosted Agent job creation once webhooks were once again being ingested. Any affected Hosted Agents customers would have seen delays in instance creation between 15:45-17:12UTC.

19 Oct 2026, 15:45 UTC

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