Partially Degraded Service
Buildkite reports partially degraded service that affects its GitHub component. The provider is investigating the problem.
State
Components degraded
Started
Ongoing for
1 h 21 min
Worst impact
Degraded
Timeline
1 updateComponents degraded
1 h 21 min 100%
Updates
Times in UTCAs posted by Buildkite
Affected components
1Buildkite in the last 90 days
Full historyIncidents in 90 days
29
Days with an incident
27
Median duration
1 h 9 min
This incident
1.2× the median
Other Buildkite incidents
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Buildkite·Increased latency and error rates
Buildkite reported increased latency and error rates for a small subset of customers. Buildkite scaled out the resources that process incoming webhooks and monitored the recovery. The incident is resolved and lasted about 2 hours and 8 minutes.
Buildkite·Elevated job dispatch times
We are seeing the job dispatch times are back to normal.
Buildkite·Increased latency and error rates
We identified that the majority of the impact was for a single customer and was caused by a database failover. We are investigating the cause and we will work with the impacted customer.
Buildkite·Elevated error rates
Between 23:16 and 23:27 we saw elevated error rates across our platform due to a scheduled database upgrade. That upgrade was not intended to cause any impact, but due to an unforeseen dependency on this database customers experienced error rates averages 2.5% during this period.
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