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Should I Contact Field Engineering or Support?

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.

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