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GitHub outage history and postmortems

Developer tools · San Francisco, US · 67 incidents in 90 days · 99.25% implied uptime · last 30h ago

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No open incidents· checked 1h 29m agoLast resolved 5h 9m ago: Incident with Webhooks and Actions, lasted 1h 50m

History

MajorNov 9, 10:00 UTC
Incident with Webhooks and Actionslasted 1h 50m
MinorNov 9, 05:59 UTC
Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous userslasted 3h 11mCapacity
MinorNov 8, 10:36 UTC
Increase in timeouts for some unauthenticated userslasted 1h 57m
MinorNov 5, 23:36 UTC
Degraded performance for multiple GitHub serviceslasted 45m
MinorNov 5, 16:50 UTC
Incident with Actionslasted 52m
MajorNov 4, 17:40 UTC
Incident with Actionslasted 36m
MajorNov 4, 16:05 UTC
Incident with Actions and Pageslasted 56mConfig change
MajorNov 4, 09:49 UTC
Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issueslasted 2h
MinorNov 4, 08:45 UTC
Increased task-related errors for Copilot Mission Controllasted 1h 17mCapacity
MinorNov 3, 20:57 UTC
Incident with Git Operationslasted 1h 44mCapacity
MinorNov 3, 13:25 UTC
Incident with API, Git, and Copilot requestslasted 31m
MinorNov 2, 17:46 UTC
Elevated errors on GPT-5.4 Nanolasted 38m
MinorOct 30, 20:59 UTC
Incident with Dependabotlasted 2h 30mCapacity
MajorOct 30, 17:50 UTC
Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhookslasted 1h 33mNetwork
CriticalOct 30, 14:31 UTC
Disruption with GitHub serviceslasted 32m
MinorOct 29, 10:19 UTC
Disruption with Copilot Cloud serviceslasted 2h 30m
CriticalOct 28, 14:12 UTC
Disruption with some Copilot serviceslasted 1h 15m
NoticeOct 27, 08:00 UTC
Elevated 404s for GitHub App s2s tokens in git/APIlasted 0mDatabase
MinorOct 26, 18:48 UTC
Incident with Actions, Issues, API Requests and Pull Requestslasted 9m
MinorOct 23, 23:41 UTC
Grok 4.6 and Grok 4.7 Service Issueslasted 42m
MinorOct 23, 14:58 UTC
Disruption with Dependabot Alertslasted 3h 53mCapacity
MinorOct 23, 07:29 UTC
Delayed Actions status check resultslasted 36m
MinorOct 22, 15:28 UTC
Project updates delayedlasted 11h 2m
MinorOct 22, 14:18 UTC
Incident with Actionslasted 1h 1mCapacity
CriticalOct 21, 14:52 UTC
Delays for Pull Requests and Webhook deliverieslasted 4h 30m
CriticalOct 19, 15:49 UTC
Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhookslasted 1h 8m
MinorOct 15, 18:31 UTC
CCA Automations are delayed when starting an Automationlasted 24m
MinorOct 13, 20:30 UTC
[Retroactive] Actions workflow run logs delayedlasted 0m
MinorOct 12, 12:21 UTC
Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issueslasted 7h 54m
CriticalOct 7, 17:17 UTC
Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requestslasted 48m
CriticalOct 7, 15:14 UTC
Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actionslasted 1h 10m
CriticalOct 6, 19:57 UTC
Several services are degradedlasted 3h 43mCapacity
MajorOct 5, 23:47 UTC
Disruption with some GitHub serviceslasted 1h 45mNetwork
CriticalOct 5, 19:11 UTC
Incident with Actionslasted 3h 38mNetwork
MinorOct 1, 14:47 UTC
Actions Job Delayslasted 3h 9mCapacity
MinorOct 1, 13:37 UTC
Elevated request latencylasted 20m
MinorOct 1, 02:00 UTC
[Retroactive] Actions workflow run failures after deployment gate approvalslasted 0m
CriticalSep 28, 21:16 UTC
Copilot Code Review is unable to complete reviewsOn September 28, 2026, between 19:23 UTC and 22:08 UTC the Copilot Code Review service was degraded and pull request reviews did not complete in all environments.lasted 52mPostmortem
MinorSep 24, 16:51 UTC
Disruption with billing information updateslasted 3h 50m
MinorSep 23, 10:11 UTC
Incident across several serviceslasted 18h 44mDatabase
About GitHub

GitHub is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. Popular games such as 2048 and Hextris have been known to be hosted on the platform.

The last year, day by day

No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Downtime, added up

Developer tools median
16h 13m

GitHub: 16h 13m weighted downtime in range, category median 1h 16m.

67 incidents, 24 major or critical, 6d 19h of incident time (2d 15h major or critical, 4d 4h partial), longest 20h 7m, implied uptime 99.25%, between Aug 12, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

Postmortems

CriticalSep 28, 21:16 UTC
Copilot Code Review is unable to complete reviewsOn September 28, 2026, between 19:23 UTC and 22:08 UTC the Copilot Code Review service was degraded and pull request reviews did not complete in all environments.lasted 52mPostmortem
CriticalSep 13, 09:16 UTC
Incident with several GitHub ServicesOn September 13, 2026, between 08:43 and 10:44 UTC, GitHub experienced degraded availability across approximately 28 services, including Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, Codespaces, Pages, Notifications, Code Scanning, Git LFS, and new account signup.lasted 1h 29mDatabasePostmortem
CriticalAug 27, 10:04 UTC
Incident with Copilot AI Model ProvidersOn August 27th, 2026, between approximately 09:20 and 12:14 UTC, the Copilot service experienced a degradation of the Kimi K3 model due to an issue with our upstream provider.lasted 2h 8mDependencyPostmortem
CriticalAug 26, 15:11 UTC
Incident with ActionsOn August 26, 2026 from 15:02 to 15:45 UTC, Actions jobs failed to start.lasted 2h 50mCapacityPostmortem
MinorAug 26, 15:09 UTC
Disruption with some GitHub serviceslasted 59mPostmortem
CriticalAug 20, 14:43 UTC
Intermittent failures creating agent tasksBetween 13:57 UTC on August 20 and 00:37 UTC on August 21, 2026, some users of the Copilot Cloud Agent experienced delays of up to 60 to 90 minutes in seeing the status and results of their agent tasks.lasted 9h 54mDeploymentPostmortem
CriticalAug 17, 13:40 UTC
Incident with GitHub.comOn August 17, 2026, from 13:28–21:15 UTC (7h 47m), GitHub.com experienced elevated errors and latency across Issues, Pull Requests, APIs, Actions, and Copilot.lasted 7h 36mConfig changePostmortem
CriticalAug 6, 15:22 UTC
Incident with ActionsOn August 6, 2026, between 15:05 UTC and 00:14 UTC on August 7, GitHub Actions experienced degraded availability.lasted 10h 42mBugPostmortem

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Questions

Is GitHub down right now?

Check GitHub's own status page at https://www.githubstatus.com for the live state. This page shows GitHub's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-11-09: "Incident with Webhooks and Actions".

How often does GitHub have outages?

GitHub posted 69 incidents in the last 90 days and 297 in the last year, 25 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 1h 10m.

When was GitHub's last major outage?

2026-11-09: "Incident with Webhooks and Actions", lasting 1h 50m.

What usually causes GitHub incidents?

Where GitHub explained the cause, the most common was capacity and load (51 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.