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INCIDENT RESOLVED
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✓Elevated wait times for machine jobs
Updated
Resolved
13:00Started
2Timeline events
Confirmed by the official source.
Executive summary
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Summary
CircleCI officially reported elevated wait times affecting Linux machine jobs and remote Docker. Wait times worsened during the incident, then decreased after a fix and returned to normal as of the latest update; CircleCI is monitoring stability.
What users experienced
- User impact
Customers using Linux machine jobs and remote Docker experienced delayed job starts, with waits reaching averages of about 40 minutes and longest waits exceeding 50 minutes before improving.
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Started
13:008 Oct 2026Timeline of the incident
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Detection
Confirmed by an official service source.
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Resolution
The service is no longer reporting this incident as active.
What we know
- ✓The affected service component was Machine Jobs, including jobs using the machine executor and setup_remote_docker.
- ✓CircleCI initially reported elevated wait times, later reaching an average of about 40 minutes with longest waits exceeding 50 minutes.
- ✓Wait times decreased after a fix was deployed and continued to improve to an average of about 90 seconds before being reported as normal.
- ✓CircleCI is monitoring to confirm that wait times remain stable while continuing to add capacity.