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No — Buildkite is up
Buildkite's status page
Operational · no open incidents
FlareWarden checks
Website reachable · 8 of 8 regions · 408 ms

Right now

The verdict is the worse of these two. How we decide

Buildkite's status page

buildkitestatus.com · read · checked every 3 minutes

Operational
Buildkite's components, as its status page reports them
ComponentStatus
REST APIOperational
Remote MCP ServerOperational
WebOperational
Agent APIOperational
Job QueueOperational
SCM IntegrationsOperational
DocsOperational
GitHubOperational
GitHub API RequestsOperational
GitHub WebhooksOperational
Atlassian Bitbucket SSHOperational
Atlassian Bitbucket Website and APIOperational
16 more, all operational · show all 28
All of Buildkite's components
ComponentStatus
REST API
REST APIOperational
Remote MCP ServerOperational
WebOperational
Agent APIOperational
Job QueueOperational
SCM IntegrationsOperational
DocsOperational
SCM Providers
GitHubOperational
GitHub API RequestsOperational
GitHub WebhooksOperational
Atlassian Bitbucket SSHOperational
Atlassian Bitbucket Website and APIOperational
Atlassian Bitbucket Git via HTTPSOperational
Notifications
GitHub Commit Status NotificationsOperational
Email NotificationsOperational
Slack NotificationsOperational
Webhook NotificationsOperational
Test Engine
WebOperational
IngestionOperational
REST APIOperational
Hosted Agents
Hosted AgentsOperational
MacOSOperational
Linux (ARM64)Operational
Linux (AMD64)Operational
Windows (AMD64)Operational
Package Registries
WebOperational
Package Managers - APIOperational
Rest APIOperational
4 locations All operational

FlareWarden checks

api.buildkite.com from 8 regions · when you open this page (at most every 30 minutes), otherwise every 6 hours

Reachable
Regions up
8 of 8
Response
408 ms
Checked

By region

  • Chicago reachable, 180 ms
  • Johannesburg reachable, 1142 ms
  • London reachable, 180 ms
  • Los Angeles reachable, 185 ms
  • San Jose reachable, 241 ms
  • Singapore reachable, 418 ms
  • Sydney reachable, 419 ms
  • Tokyo reachable, 506 ms
Timing by region
Connection timing for each region that loaded the page
RegionDNSTCPTLSTTFB
Chicago144 ms1 ms3 ms180 ms
Johannesburg347 ms1 ms3 ms1142 ms
London75 ms6 ms5 ms180 ms
Los Angeles71 ms3 ms5 ms185 ms
San Jose105 ms19 ms29 ms241 ms
Singapore188 ms2 ms4 ms418 ms
Sydney199 ms1 ms3 ms419 ms
Tokyo341 ms2 ms4 ms506 ms
We check that api.buildkite.com loads, not every feature behind it. Test it yourself

History

Incidents Buildkite reported

Since Oct 22, 15 days · from buildkitestatus.com

Incidents
9
Major or critical
1
Median to resolve
1h 29m
  1. lasted 3h 28m
  2. lasted 19m
  3. lasted 1h 29m
  4. lasted 32m
  5. lasted 2h 8m
  6. lasted 2h
  7. lasted 31m
  8. lasted 45m

And 1 more in this window. Full history on their status page

Buildkite website availability

Measured by FlareWarden · api.buildkite.com

Last 7 days
100%
Last 30 days
100%
Last 90 days
100%
Avg response, 30 days
279ms

Last 30 days

72-day clean streak
Oct 7: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 8: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 9: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 10: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 11: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 12: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 13: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 14: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 15: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 16: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 17: 100.00% uptime, 31 checks
Oct 18: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 19: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 20: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 21: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 22: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 23: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 24: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 25: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 26: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 27: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 28: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 29: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 30: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 31: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Nov 1: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Nov 2: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Nov 3: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Nov 4: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Nov 5: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 7 Today
No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Measured by FlareWarden's own checks of api.buildkite.com from multiple regions every 6 hours. Buildkite's status page sets the verdict above when it reports trouble, but never these figures. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 72 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

What Buildkite does

Buildkite runs CI/CD pipelines in which the build agents run on infrastructure you control. Buildkite hosts the pipeline definitions, scheduling and the web dashboard, while the machines that compile and test code stay inside your own network. Engineering teams pick it to keep source and build secrets off a vendor's servers while still getting hosted orchestration.

What an outage looks like

Builds sit queued and never start, because agents poll the Agent API for work and receive nothing. Jobs already running usually finish, since that work happens on your machines, but results fail to upload and the pipeline never advances. The dashboard may be slow or error, and REST API calls from deploy scripts start failing.

What to do about it

Read the component list on Buildkite's status page rather than the headline: Web, Agent API, REST API, Remote MCP Server and Job Queue each fail on their own, and Job Queue is the one that stalls builds. Agents reconnect by themselves once the API returns, so restarting them rarely helps. Avoid re-triggering builds, which deepens the backlog.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Buildkite is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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Buildkite outage FAQ

Do my builds keep running during a Buildkite outage?
Partly. Buildkite agents run on your own infrastructure, so a job already executing keeps compiling and testing. What breaks is coordination: the agent cannot report results back, and no new jobs are dispatched. The build looks stuck in the dashboard even though the machine is working. Agents reconnect and report once the Agent API recovers.
Why are my builds queued but not starting?
That is the usual shape of a Buildkite incident. Agents ask the Agent API for work on a poll, so when that component is degraded they sit idle while the queue grows. Check the Job Queue and Agent API components specifically, since the web dashboard can be fully operational while dispatch is broken.
Should I restart my build agents?
Usually not. Agents retry their connection automatically and rejoin when the API returns, so a restart adds churn without speeding recovery, and it loses any job currently executing on that machine. Restarting is worth it only if an agent stays disconnected after Buildkite reports the incident resolved.
Is my code at risk during an outage?
No. Buildkite stores pipeline configuration and build metadata, while source lives in your Git host and the build work happens on your agents. An outage delays feedback rather than losing code. Artifacts uploaded during the incident may need re-uploading once the REST API is available again.

How we measure this

  • We request Buildkite's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them. When you open this page and our last check is more than 30 minutes old, we check again on the spot; those checks update the verdict, never the availability figures.
  • A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
  • A single failing region is treated as probe noise. Our checks only change their verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
  • Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
  • Where Buildkite publishes an official status feed we read it too, and the verdict is the worse of what it reports and what our checks see: a major outage of Buildkite itself is Down, trouble with one part of it is Degraded, problems at a few of a provider's many locations change nothing, and a security notice that marks nothing down is shown but changes nothing either. We check the feed every 3 minutes and read it again within minutes of any change to its incidents or components; a reading counts for 45 minutes after the last check that found nothing changed. The availability figures above are our measurement alone.

Get alerted when Buildkite goes down

We check Buildkite every 6 hours, and again when you open this page if that was more than 30 minutes ago. Your own monitors run as often as every 30 seconds, from up to 17 cities across three regions, and tell you the moment something breaks.

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