CircleCI outage on May 1 — 2h 52m disruption
May 1, 11:30 AM → May 1, 02:23 PM · 2h 52m · medium
CircleCI experienced an outage starting at 11:30 AM UTC on May 1, 2026. Users reported issues with the service being slow or unresponsive. The incident was resolved at 2:23 PM UTC.
Impact
During this incident, users reported that CircleCI was slow or unresponsive. A total of 44 user reports were received during the outage period. The issue was detected by PulseWatch and correlated with vendor-side signals. No specific regions were identified as being more impacted than others.
Top reported issues
- Slow / unresponsive44
Incident timeline
- May 1, 11:30 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)
- May 1, 11:45 AM
Peak of 4 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.0)
- May 1, 11:52 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 1, 11:57 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 1, 12:08 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 1, 12:12 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 1, 12:22 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 1, 12:27 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 1, 12:37 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 1, 12:42 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 1, 12:53 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 1, 12:57 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 1, 01:07 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 1, 02:23 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 1, 11:30 AM
CircleCI status page acknowledged the incident.
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