CircleCI incident
Increased task wait times for Docker Gen2
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- CircleCI status page · Reported Increased task wait times for Docker Gen2
- CircleCI status page · Identified There is an increased wait time for jobs on Docker Gen2.
- CircleCI status page · Identified Note: delays will be more noticeable for people running on Docker `xlarge` and above.
- CircleCI status page · Monitoring We're still seeing spikes in task wait times but on average wait times are looking better for all Docker Gen2.
- CircleCI status page · Resolved This incident has been resolved.
- 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…
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Site Qwality, “Increased task wait times for Docker Gen2,” Oct 7, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-circleci-down/incidents/circleci-202610071854/
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