Sept 18 - Recent outages

[zahid]

Hi everyone,

Within the last two weeks, my team and I have noticed many service degredations / outages on CircleCI, mainly related to provisioning VMs at the start of a job.
This grinds our continuous deployment o a halt - luckily we can run all of our build/test/deploy programs locally, but it is a frustrating issue for the development team.

Is there any insight or support that can be shared for dealing with this? I’m curious to see what’s going on because I think the last few service degradation have all been related to this one issue. I love using CircleCI as a product; I’m hoping we get some clarity and this get’s resolved soon.

Appreciate any comments or feedback.

Thanks,
Zahid

[halfer]

There were outages tomorrow?

[mayu]

Hello Zahid,

If this is a major concern for you, perhaps you can create a little script to parse https://status.circleci.com/ and start your job only if everything is green? ( I am sure Circleci is already working hard every day to fix issues. )

[halfer]

perhaps you can create a little script to parse https://status.circleci.com/

Ha, on a total guess, I wondered if there was a machine readable version, and it turns out there is. Woop!

[mayu]

it turns out there is

Nice!

Or, you can use Gmail API to parse your Gmail inbox to see if there are new CircleCI outage emails assuming CircleCI email notification is working consistently.