Job processing and scheduling is degraded affecting multiple Atlassian products

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1. 02:55 UTC Bitbucket status page · Reported Job processing and scheduling is degraded affecting multiple Atlassian products
2. 02:55 UTC Bitbucket status page · Investigating Job processing and job scheduling is degraded, which is affecting scheduled and asynchronous work across several products, including Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket Cloud. Affected users may see delayed or missing job execution, including delayed email-to-ticket processing and schedules that do not run as expected.
3. 03:47 UTC Bitbucket status page · Identified Our teams have identified the root cause of this incident and is now actively working on mitigating the issue. We will provide further updates within an hour or sooner if we have any significant progress to share.
4. 04:03 UTC Bitbucket status page · Identified Our teams have taken corrective steps to mitigate the issue and are observing some improvements. We continue to monitor the situation and will take necessary actions until the incident is fully recovered.
5. 05:00 UTC Bitbucket status page · Identified Our teams continue to work on recovery until the incident is fully resolved. We will provide further updates if we have significant progress to share. Along with impact to scheduled and asynchronous work across several products, we also identified SLA component in Jira Service Management is not appearing as expected.
6. 07:01 UTC Bitbucket status page · Identified Our teams continue to work on recovery until the incident is fully resolved. We will provide further updates if we have significant progress to share. There is also an impact to the new support tickets created in terms of missing SLA component, notifications which may be affecting the response times and backlog management of some tickets.
7. 07:51 UTC Bitbucket status page · Resolved On 01st Oct 2026, between 01:00 UTC and 07:25 UTC, users may have seen missing job execution, including delayed email-to-ticket processing and schedules that do not run as expected. We have now implemented a fix and and services have been restored to normal operation for affected customers. The impact to support tickets with missing SLA component and delayed notifications have also confirmed recovery. Note: For Bitbucket customers, if there was any scheduled pipelines that did not run during the incident window, you may wait for the next scheduled execution or trigger them manually.
8. 18:24 UTC Bitbucket status page · Postmortem ### Summary On October 1, 2026, between 01:00 and 07:25 UTC, degraded job processing and scheduling impacted Atlassian products including Bitbucket Cloud, Confluence, Forge apps, Jira, and Jira Service Management in all commercial cloud regions. This caused delayed or missed background tasks, such as email-to-ticket processing and scheduled pipelines; interactive product use was not affected. The event was triggered when an unexpected volume of scheduled tasks became due simultaneously, overwhelming our shared job scheduling platform. Automated monitoring detected the incident within three…