# Bitbucket: Job processing and scheduling is degraded affecting multiple Atlassian products

- Provider: [Bitbucket](https://outages.cc/bitbucket.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: Resolved
- Worst impact: Partial outage
- Started: 2026-10-01 02:55 UTC
- Resolved: 2026-10-01 07:51 UTC (lasted 4 h 56 min)
- Components: Pipelines
- Official update: https://stspg.io/z6sj823p4hbj

## Updates from Bitbucket

### postmortem, 2026-10-09 18:24 UTC

### Summary On October 1, 2026, between 01:00 and 07:25 UTC, degraded job processing and scheduling impacted Atlassian products including Bitbucket Cloud, Confluence, Forge apps, Jira, and Jira Service Management in all commercial cloud regions. This caused delayed or missed background tasks, such as email-to-ticket processing and scheduled pipelines; interactive product use was not affected. The event was triggered when an unexpected volume of scheduled tasks became due simultaneously, overwhelming our shared job scheduling platform. Automated monitoring detected the incident within three minutes. Recovery began around 03:45 UTC as engineering scaled capacity and the platform worked through the backlog, with full resolution reached in 6 hours and 25 minutes. ### IMPACT Most scheduled tasks stopped running at 01:00 UTC and resumed from about 03:45 UTC. Most delayed work had caught up by about 06:00 UTC, and the remaining delays had cleared by 07:25 UTC. Across affected products: - Recu

### resolved, 2026-10-01 07:51 UTC

On 01st Oct 2026, between 01:00 UTC and 07:25 UTC, users may have seen missing job execution, including delayed email-to-ticket processing and schedules that do not run as expected. We have now implemented a fix and and services have been restored to normal operation for affected customers. The impact to support tickets with missing SLA component and delayed notifications have also confirmed recovery. Note: For Bitbucket customers, if there was any scheduled pipelines that did not run during the incident window, you may wait for the next scheduled execution or trigger them manually.

### identified, 2026-10-01 07:01 UTC

Our teams continue to work on recovery until the incident is fully resolved. We will provide further updates if we have significant progress to share. There is also an impact to the new support tickets created in terms of missing SLA component, notifications which may be affecting the response times and backlog management of some tickets.

### identified, 2026-10-01 05:00 UTC

Our teams continue to work on recovery until the incident is fully resolved. We will provide further updates if we have significant progress to share. Along with impact to scheduled and asynchronous work across several products, we also identified SLA component in Jira Service Management is not appearing as expected.

### identified, 2026-10-01 04:03 UTC

Our teams have taken corrective steps to mitigate the issue and are observing some improvements. We continue to monitor the situation and will take necessary actions until the incident is fully recovered.

### identified, 2026-10-01 03:47 UTC

Our teams have identified the root cause of this incident and is now actively working on mitigating the issue. We will provide further updates within an hour or sooner if we have any significant progress to share.

### investigating, 2026-10-01 02:55 UTC

Job processing and job scheduling is degraded, which is affecting scheduled and asynchronous work across several products, including Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket Cloud. Affected users may see delayed or missing job execution, including delayed email-to-ticket processing and schedules that do not run as expected.