Bitbucket is Atlassian's Git-based source code hosting and CI/CD platform, tightly integrated with Jira and Confluence for end-to-end development workflows. Bitbucket Cloud serves over 10 million developers with unlimited private repositories, built-in CI/CD through Bitbucket Pipelines, code review via pull requests, and deployment tracking. The platform supports both Git and Mercurial repositories (Mercurial support was deprecated), and offers Bitbucket Data Center for enterprises requiring self-hosted deployments with high availability configurations.
Bitbucket outages share infrastructure with other Atlassian Cloud products, so Jira and Confluence issues frequently coincide with Bitbucket disruptions. Common causes include Git backend storage performance degradation, Pipelines runner capacity constraints, and webhook delivery failures that break CI/CD integrations. Pull request rendering issues during database maintenance, search indexing failures, and authentication service disruptions are recurring incident types across the Atlassian platform.
When Bitbucket goes down, development teams lose access to repositories, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines simultaneously. Code reviews halt, merge operations fail, and Bitbucket Pipelines stops running automated builds and deployments. Integration with Jira for issue tracking and Confluence for documentation may also break if the outage is Atlassian-wide. Teams using Bitbucket as their primary code hosting platform face complete development workflow disruption.
Use this page to check Bitbucket availability. Bitbucket shares infrastructure with Jira and Confluence, so check status.atlassian.com for the complete picture of any Atlassian-wide incident. Bitbucket-specific issues like Git operation failures or Pipelines outages are listed separately on the status page.
Git push failures can result from Bitbucket outages, SSH key authentication issues, repository permission changes, or large file size limits. Check if 'git fetch' also fails — if both operations fail, it is likely a platform issue. Verify your SSH keys in Bitbucket settings and check status.atlassian.com for any active incidents.
Yes, Jira-Bitbucket integrations rely on Bitbucket webhooks and API calls. During a Bitbucket outage, Jira won't show commit references, branch information, or deployment statuses. However, Jira itself may remain functional for issue tracking. Once Bitbucket recovers, integration data typically syncs retroactively.
Bitbucket's reliability is tied to the broader Atlassian Cloud infrastructure, which means outages can affect multiple Atlassian products simultaneously. GitHub operates on independent infrastructure. Both platforms have comparable SLAs, but Bitbucket's value lies in its native Jira integration for teams already in the Atlassian ecosystem.
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