CircleCI Support Quick Reference
When deciding whether to contact CircleCI support or field engineering, the key difference is whether your issue is break/fix, or planning/advisory in nature.
SLAs are only applied to tickets submitted with the support team, so in urgent situations, it is important you contact support through the ticketing system.
Some common examples of why you may want to contact the support team are:
Something is broken or not working
You're blocked and need immediate assistance
You have an urgent technical question
Whereas you should contact Field Engineering in cases where:
You want to improve your processes
You're designing new workflows
You need strategic guidance
Some additional, but not exhaustive, examples can be found below:
Your need | Support Engineering | Field Engineering |
Build failures & errors | ✅ |
|
Platform outages | ✅ |
|
Bug reports | ✅ |
|
Account/billing issues | ✅ |
|
Workflow optimization |
| ✅ |
CI/CD best practices |
| ✅ |
Strategic planning |
| ✅ |
Team training |
| ✅ |
Response Timeline
Team | When to Use | Response Focus |
Support Engineering | Immediate/Urgent | Fix what's broken now |
Field Engineering | Strategic/Planning | Optimize for the future |
How to Contact
Support Engineering | Field Engineering |
Your assigned Field Engineer | |
| Your account team |
If unsure, start with Support Engineering - they can route you to the right team.
