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Uptime (30d)
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Response Time
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Incidents (7d)
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Response Time (24h)

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Recent Incidents

criticalresolved

Disruption with some GitHub services

Jul 16, 09:13 AM โ€” Resolved Jul 16, 12:20 PM

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

minorresolved

Incident with Webhooks

Jul 14, 05:38 PM โ€” Resolved Jul 14, 06:01 PM

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

minorresolved

Disruption with some GitHub services

Jul 14, 08:21 AM โ€” Resolved Jul 14, 09:56 AM

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

majorresolved

Actions runs are experiencing failures to start

Jul 13, 01:32 PM โ€” Resolved Jul 13, 01:53 PM

On July 13, 2026, between 13:11 and 13:53 UTC, some customers experienced failures starting and running GitHub Actions workflows, which also affected Copilot cloud agent sessions and GitHub Pages builds since they depend on Actions. During the peak of the incident, 30% of Actions jobs failed to start and 2% were delayed more than 5 minutes. The incident was triggered by a configuration change in an internal autoscaling component that contained outdated capacity threshold values. This caused a critical Actions service to scale below its required baseline, reducing capacity for workflow processing. We identified the regression, rolled back the change, and restored service capacity. New workflow executions recovered by 13:39 UTC. Full recovery was reached by 13:53 UTC after the queued backlog was drained. To prevent recurrence, we have added deployment guardrails to validate that autoscaling inputs are current and to detect drift between planned and live scaling state before autoscaling changes are applied.

criticalresolved

Delays starting Actions runs

Jul 9, 04:34 AM โ€” Resolved Jul 9, 01:52 PM

On July 9, 2026, between 03:29 UTC and 13:39 UTC, GitHub Actions experienced delayed and failed job starts on GitHub-hosted runners. The incident was caused by an unhealthy state in a backend data service responsible for provisioning hosted runners, preventing runner acquisition for a subset of workloads. During most of the incident, approximately 8% of workflow runs on hosted runners were delayed by more than 5 minutes, while roughly 2% failed to start.At 13:39 UTC, we restored the health of the backend data replication system, allowing provisioning to recover and the accumulated workflow backlog to drain. Service performance then returned to expected levels. We are improving provisioning-service resiliency, workload distribution, and capacity balancing to reduce the likelihood and impact of similar incidents.

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What is GitHub?

Code hosting and version control platform

GitHub Down? Try These Steps

  1. Check the official GitHub status page for announcements
  2. Try refreshing your browser or clearing cache
  3. Check your internet connection
  4. Try accessing from a different network or VPN
  5. Check social media for reports from other users
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Is GitHub down for everyone or just me?

To determine whether it's a widespread GitHub outage or a problem specific to your account or location:

  1. Check the status indicator above โ€” if this page shows a major outage, it's confirmed global.
  2. Try a different device or network โ€” if it works on mobile data but not Wi-Fi, it's likely a local network issue, not GitHub.
  3. Clear cache and cookies โ€” browser issues can mimic service outages.
  4. Check community reports โ€” Downdetector and social media will show whether hundreds of other users are reporting the same issue.
  5. Test the API directly (for developers) โ€” a raw request returning 5xx errors confirms a service-side outage; a 429 means you've hit your personal rate limit.

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