Delays starting Gen 2 Docker Jobs

Timeline

1. 09:06 UTC CircleCI status page · Reported Delays starting Gen 2 Docker Jobs
2. 09:06 UTC CircleCI status page · Investigating Customers may experience delays in starting Docker Gen 2 Jobs. We are working to increase the throughput of the system to accomodate this.
3. 09:47 UTC CircleCI status page · Identified We have identified the root cause and we are actively working on a fix. Thank you for your patience.
4. 10:13 UTC CircleCI status page · Identified A fix has been rolled out and we're starting to observe recovery.
5. 10:24 UTC CircleCI status page · Monitoring We're seeing queue times return to normal levels, and continue to monitor.
6. 10:45 UTC CircleCI status page · Resolved This incident has been resolved.
7. 22:36 UTC CircleCI status page · Postmortem ## **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…