CircleCI outage, 8 October 2026
Elevated wait times for machine jobs
- Started
- Resolved
- 8 Oct 2026, 16:35 UTC (after 3 h 35 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- Machine Jobs
Last update from CircleCI
## **Summary** Between October 1 and October 8, 2026, CircleCI customers experienced five separate incidents in which jobs waited longer than normal to start, or failed to start. Three of the incidents were driven by limited instance availability from our cloud provider. One was caused by a configuration issue in our scheduling infrastructure, and one by memory limits on an internal service, which we raised during the incident. * **October 1, 07:57 to 10:24 UTC:** Docker Gen 2 jobs waited up to 30 minutes to start. A configuration issue prevented the Gen 2 scheduling servers from using their high-performance local disks. During a burst in traffic, the fallback disks saturated and job place...
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