CircleCI outage, 21 October 2026
Increased Docker gen2 wait times
- Started
- Resolved
- 21 Oct 2026, 20:54 UTC (after 1 h 23 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- Docker Jobs
Is this still happening?
No. CircleCI marked this incident resolved on 21 Oct 2026, 20:54 UTC, 1 h 23 min after it began.
Right now: CircleCI reports all systems operational. (as of 26 Oct, 03:45 UTC) Live CircleCI status
Last update from CircleCI
## Summary From 15:44 to 20:55 UTC on October 21, customers running Gen 2 Docker jobs saw increased wait times for their jobs to start. Delays were longest on the 2xlarge resource class, where jobs waited up to 20 minutes. The incident was caused by limited availability of the cloud instances we had configured to meet demand, particularly for 2xlarge jobs. In response, our engineering team configured additional instance types, configured additional Gen 2 Docker clusters. By 20:55 UTC, wait times had returned to normal and the incident was resolved. After the incident was resolved, we expanded our Gen 2 Docker fleet into additional cloud regions, and we continue actively standing up additi...
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