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GitHub Outage History

Past incidents and downtime events

Complete history of GitHub outages, incidents, and service disruptions. Showing 50 most recent incidents.

August 2026(21 incidents)

minorresolvedAug 24, 01:56 PM — Resolved Aug 24, 02:34 PM

Actions delays in starting runs

4 updates
resolvedAug 24, 02:34 PM

On August 24, 2026, between 13:33 UTC and 14:04 UTC, 3.8% of Actions runs experienced start delays over 5 minutes with 1.25% of Actions runs failing outright. The incident was caused by a disk failure on a node hosting one of many service instances responsible for processing runner assignment events. Typically, pods on unhealthy nodes are removed and replaced automatically without impact. In this case, although the node was severely degraded and unable to perform disk operations, it continued sending healthy signals, preventing the system from immediately moving its work elsewhere. During this period, events assigned to the affected component accumulated until an automatic rebalance redirected processing to healthy components at 13:54 UTC. The queue backlog was cleared at 14:00 UTC, and processing returned to normal by 14:04 UTC. To prevent a recurrence, we are improving detection and automated remediation for unhealthy nodes that aren’t fully offline. We are also strengthening application-level resiliency, so stalled consumers are automatically removed quickly and their work reassigned without waiting for the affected node to recover.

monitoringAug 24, 02:26 PM

The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 24, 02:22 PM

Failures while queuing and running Actions jobs for a subset of customers are now resolving. We are monitoring for full recovery.

investigatingAug 24, 01:56 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

majorresolvedAug 24, 07:12 AM — Resolved Aug 24, 07:58 AM

Elevated errors on Fable 5 due to upstream provider

3 updates
resolvedAug 24, 07:58 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.

investigatingAug 24, 07:12 AM

We are experiencing degraded availability for the Fable model in Copilot products and IDE surfaces. This is due to an issue with the upstream model provider. While we work with them to resolve the issue, we recommend choosing another model or selecting 'Auto' to continue using Copilot.

investigatingAug 24, 07:12 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Copilot AI Model Providers

noneresolvedAug 21, 02:00 PM — Resolved Aug 21, 02:00 PM

Degraded Git Operations over SSH

1 update
resolvedAug 24, 07:19 AM

On August 21, 2026, between 14:00 and 14:07 UTC, dotcom Git operations over SSH were degraded. Successful Git operations over SSH fell by more than 95% for during the peak impact window, making clone, fetch, or push over SSH effectively unavailable to most users for approximately four minutes. Git operations over HTTPS were not affected. The incident was caused by a software defect in our load-balancing infrastructure that was triggered by a configuration change. The defect only occurred when connections passed through multiple layers of load balancers running the new configuration, which meant it was not detected during canary testing. We mitigated the incident by rolling back the configuration change. We are adding regression coverage for multi-layer load-balancer configurations and improving monitoring and alerting for Git operations over SSH to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of similar issues in the future.

criticalresolvedAug 20, 02:43 PM — Resolved Aug 21, 12:37 AM

Intermittent failures creating agent tasks

12 updates
resolvedAug 21, 12:37 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.

investigatingAug 20, 08:37 PM

We are seeing gradual recovery in Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility as we deploy a fix for the root cause. Session output remains delayed by approximately one hour while remediation continues.

investigatingAug 20, 07:35 PM

We are continuing to observe gradual recovery for Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility. Session output continues to be delayed by approximately 1 hour as our remediation steps take effect.

investigatingAug 20, 06:45 PM

We are continuing to observe gradual recovery for Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility, with session output delayed by approximately 1 hour. We have taken additional steps to accelerate the recovery and expect this to take effect within the next hour.

investigatingAug 20, 06:04 PM

We are continuing to observe gradual recovery for Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility, with session output delayed by approximately 1 hour. We have taken additional steps to accelerate the recovery and are continuing to monitor the impact.

investigatingAug 20, 05:32 PM

We are observing gradual recovery for Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility, with session output delayed approximately 1 hour. We have taken additional steps to accelerate the recovery and are continuing to monitor the impact.

investigatingAug 20, 05:05 PM

We are seeing signs of recovery for Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility, but this recovery is slower than anticipated. We are pursuing additional mitigating measures to accelerate recovery.

investigatingAug 20, 04:14 PM

Users are experiencing delays when starting tasks using Copilot Cloud Agent and are not be able to see the status of these tasks. Copilot Cloud Agent tasks are still being completed. We have identified the cause of the issue and are putting mitigations in place to return service to normal levels. We will provide another update about the expected recovery time shortly.

investigatingAug 20, 03:41 PM

We are experiencing issues with Copilot Cloud Agent tasks, resulting in newly started tasks not properly displaying on-going progress. These Copilot Cloud Agent tasks are still being completed correctly but lack proper visibility. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide updates as we learn more.

investigatingAug 20, 03:01 PM

We have identified the problematic component and are working to fail over to a healthy instance. Further updates will be provided as we perform mitigations.

investigatingAug 20, 02:51 PM

Users may experience delays when starting tasks using Copilot Cloud Agent. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide updates as we learn more.

investigatingAug 20, 02:43 PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

minorresolvedAug 18, 07:40 AM — Resolved Aug 18, 11:42 AM

Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages

5 updates
resolvedAug 18, 11:42 AM

On August 18, 2026, between 05:02 UTC and 11:30 UTC, customers were unable to view or manage Actions Runners and Runner Groups through the GitHub UI and API. The issue was caused by failures in backend requests reading runner and runner group data. The failures were caused by an expired authentication certificate unique to this service. The certificate had been rotated in KeyVault, but a step to enable use at runtime had been paused to prevent recurrence of previous incidents triggered by this operation. The impact was mitigated by completing the enablement of the new certificate in the backend system. We have added additional monitoring to this and other certificates. This service is also in the process of being replaced as part of our availability and scale work, bringing this authentication path and secret management in line with patterns across all GitHub services.

monitoringAug 18, 11:24 AM

We have applied a mitigation and are seeing recovery signals. We will continue monitoring recovery and providing updates.

monitoringAug 18, 10:41 AM

We have identified the source of a communication issue between Actions services and are working toward mitigation. Customers may experience failure to load runner groups and runner-related permissions issues when using Larger Runners.

monitoringAug 18, 07:40 AM

We are investigating reports of failure to load runner groups and runner-related permissions for customers using larger runners.

investigatingAug 18, 07:40 AM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

majorresolvedAug 18, 09:36 AM — Resolved Aug 18, 10:23 AM

Incident with Actions

2 updates
resolvedAug 18, 10:23 AM

On August 18, 2026, between 05:02 UTC and 11:30 UTC, customers were unable to run jobs on Actions Larger Runners and were unable to view or manage Actions Runners and Runner Groups through the GitHub UI and API. These issues were caused by failures in backend requests resolving essential metadata for starting Larger Runner workflow runs and for reading runner and runner group data. The failures were caused by an expired authentication certificate unique to this service. The certificate had been rotated in KeyVault, but a step to enable use at runtime had been paused to prevent recurrence of previous incidents that had been triggered by this operation. We mitigated the issues by completing the enablement of the new certificate in the backend system. We have added additional monitoring to this and other certificates. The relevant service is also in the process of being replaced as part of our availability and scale work, bringing this authentication path and secret management in line with patterns across all GitHub services.

investigatingAug 18, 09:36 AM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

criticalresolvedAug 17, 01:40 PM — Resolved Aug 17, 09:15 PM

Incident with GitHub.com

36 updates
resolvedAug 17, 09:15 PM

On 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. At peak, web/API error rates were approximately 20%, while archive and raw-content downloads reached approximately 50%. SAML/OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync were also affected, as well as Actions workflows in GHEC with Data Residency that depend on public workflow step definitions hosted on GitHub.com. Most services recovered by 16:36 UTC as our Central US datacenter recovered; Actions was degraded until approximately 18:03 UTC; and Copilot Token Service fully recovered by 21:02. Some of the failing traffic was moved from Central US to Northern Virginia where it was served successfully until the network failure in Central US was debugged and resolved. Delayed replies to a single internal endpoint triggered a latent retry bug in VS Code that amplified traffic by approximately 10x and caused delayed recovery for the Copilot Token Service. The immediate cause of the failure was network saturation on load balancers in Central US due to a new peak in traffic. Originally this was caused by an Istio sidecar pod reaching its concurrency limits and failing to auto scale correctly because of a misconfigured policy that watched host service but not sidecar limits. One failure cascaded to more and eventually four HAProxy nodes exhausted their flow limits, degrading the gateway auth path and causing widespread authentication latency and failures. The problem was worsened by optimistic retry logic which overloaded internal load balancers. Pausing HAProxy on those nodes simultaneously produced immediate broad recovery. The retry storm in Northern VA was fixed by 1) temporarily reducing gateway retry logic with a PR and 2) blocking inbound Copilot Token Service token requests at the load balancers with a 403, and then gradually ramping back up traffic per-site to allow callers to succeed. Residual Copilot authentication failures continued because client retry behavior amplified load: a failed token operation could generate many extra requests and enter a retry loop. Copilot Token Service traffic increased from a normal 7–9K RPS to 70–100K RPS. Reducing gateway authentication retries and blocking retry-triggering responses stabilized Copilot Token Service and completed recovery. Complicating factors that impeded recovery included a number of scraping attacks on codeload endpoints. To prevent recurrence, our follow-up actions include: - Correcting autoscaling policies to account for service-mesh sidecar concurrency and capacity. - Auditing Istio request, concurrency, and scaling limits across affected services. - Reviewing retry limits and backoff behavior across gateways and clients. - Addressing the VS Code retry behavior that amplified Copilot token traffic. - Improving load-balancer capacity monitoring and regional failover safeguards.

investigatingAug 17, 08:45 PM

We are continuing to apply mitigations to address sporadic Copilot authentication failures in some applications. We expect full recovery within the next 30 minutes. Copilot usage via the GitHub CLI and GitHub App are unaffected.

investigatingAug 17, 08:22 PM

Issues is operating normally.

investigatingAug 17, 08:08 PM

We are continuing to investigate sporadic failures affecting Copilot authentication in some applications. Copilot usage via the GitHub CLI and GitHub App are unaffected.

investigatingAug 17, 07:13 PM

We are continuing to investigate sporadic authentication failures. We have partially disabled authentication token retries and have seen improvement, and we are monitoring impact before fully applying this mitigation.

investigatingAug 17, 07:01 PM

API Requests is operating normally.

investigatingAug 17, 06:48 PM

API Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 06:23 PM

The degradation affecting Git Operations has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 17, 06:11 PM

We identified the problematic component and have taken corrective actions, but we are seeing residual impact in the form of sporadic authentication failures. We are continuing to apply additional mitigations and investigate the remaining impact.

investigatingAug 17, 05:36 PM

Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 05:34 PM

We identified the problematic component and have taken corrective actions, but we are seeing residual impact across numerous services. We are continuing to apply additional mitigations and investigate the remaining impact.

investigatingAug 17, 05:30 PM

Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 04:59 PM

The degradation affecting API Requests, Actions, Git Operations, Issues, Pages, Pull Requests and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 17, 04:36 PM

We identified the problematic component and have taken corrective actions. There are strong signs of recovery but we are still working to completely restore service, with error rates still remaining slightly elevated. We will post further updates as recovery continues.

investigatingAug 17, 04:16 PM

We are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync are also impacted. We are still working to identify the root cause and will continue to post updates as we learn more and perform mitigation.

investigatingAug 17, 03:42 PM

We are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync are also impacted. We are currently performing mitigations and will post updates as we progress.

investigatingAug 17, 03:40 PM

Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 03:21 PM

Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 03:10 PM

Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 03:01 PM

API Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 02:58 PM

Webhooks is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 02:58 PM

We are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync are also impacted. We are currently performing mitigations based on our investigation thus far and are monitoring for improvement.

investigatingAug 17, 02:58 PM

Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 02:54 PM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 02:49 PM

Issues is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 02:45 PM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 02:31 PM

Copilot is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 02:24 PM

We are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync are also impacted. Investigations are on-going and we will continue to provide updates as we discover more information.

investigatingAug 17, 02:04 PM

We are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. Investigations are on-going into the root cause, and updates will continue to be provided as we investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 01:58 PM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 01:46 PM

Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 01:45 PM

We are seeing an approximate 20% error rate across numerous experiences including Pull Requests, Issues, and others. Investigations are currently under way and we will be posting updates as they become available

investigatingAug 17, 01:44 PM

Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 01:42 PM

Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 01:41 PM

API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 17, 01:40 PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

minorresolvedAug 13, 04:21 PM — Resolved Aug 13, 06:27 PM

Disruption with GHEC Team Sync

4 updates
resolvedAug 13, 06:27 PM

On August 13, 2026, from 15:31:21 UTC to 18:27:55 UTC, GitHub Enterprise Cloud team synchronization was degraded for enterprises using personal accounts. Organization teams experienced delays of up to 3 to 13 hours (median 8 hours) when syncing with IdP groups, resulting in delayed access grants or removals for enterprise users across 2.8% of teams. A temporary change introduced to address a previous issue due to increased usage of this feature remained active after it was intended to be removed, causing synchronization delays during periods of high volume. We removed the temporary change and provisioned additional resources to handle the increased volume.

investigatingAug 13, 06:27 PM

We have deployed a mitigation. At this time GHEC Team Sync has recovered for enterprises with personal accounts. Teams syncing to IdP groups have returned to their normal cadence.

investigatingAug 13, 04:21 PM

GHEC Team Sync is currently degraded for enterprises with personal accounts, causing delays when syncing teams to IdP groups. We have identified the cause of the delays and are working on a mitigation. We will provide an update on our progress at 20:00 UTC.

investigatingAug 13, 04:21 PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

minorresolvedAug 13, 02:43 PM — Resolved Aug 13, 03:47 PM

Errors with the Fable 5 Model in Copilot

5 updates
resolvedAug 13, 03:47 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.

investigatingAug 13, 03:47 PM

The issues with our upstream model provider have been resolved, and Fable 5 is once again available in Copilot products and IDE surfaces.We will continue monitoring to ensure stability, but mitigation is complete.

investigatingAug 13, 03:23 PM

We are seeing modest recovery, but are still experiencing degraded availability for the Fable 5 model in Copilot products and IDE surfaces. This is due to an issue with an upstream model provider. While we work with them to resolve the issue, we recommend choosing another model or selecting 'Auto' to continue using Copilot.

investigatingAug 13, 02:50 PM

We are experiencing degraded availability for the Fable 5 model in Copilot products and IDE surfaces. This is due to an issue with an upstream model provider. While we work with them to resolve the issue, we recommend choosing another model or selecting 'Auto' to continue using Copilot.

investigatingAug 13, 02:43 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot AI Model Providers

minorresolvedAug 13, 02:45 PM — Resolved Aug 13, 03:36 PM

Incident with Webhooks

9 updates
resolvedAug 13, 03:36 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.

monitoringAug 13, 03:33 PM

We have temporarily disabled a background job which caused the impact. At this time the impact is fully mitigated.

monitoringAug 13, 03:33 PM

The degradation affecting Git Operations, Issues, Packages, Pull Requests and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 13, 02:58 PM

We are currently investigating a brief degradation of service for Git operations (specifically pushes), issues, pull requests, package registry, and webhooks between 14:32 and 14:46 UTC. We have identified the source of the degradation and are investigating mitigation strategies to prevent recurrence.

investigatingAug 13, 02:56 PM

Packages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 13, 02:46 PM

Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 13, 02:46 PM

Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 13, 02:46 PM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 13, 02:45 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Webhooks

majorresolvedAug 12, 09:39 PM — Resolved Aug 12, 10:56 PM

Disruption with Login and Release Asset downloads

4 updates
resolvedAug 12, 10:56 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.

investigatingAug 12, 10:22 PM

We have identified the root cause and are working on mitigation. Errors on the login page and downloading release assets have decreased, but we are not fully mitigated. We will continue to provide updates.

investigatingAug 12, 09:43 PM

We are investigating issues with Login and when downloading Release Assets. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation.

investigatingAug 12, 09:39 PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

minorresolvedAug 12, 04:16 PM — Resolved Aug 12, 04:41 PM

Incident with Pull Requests and Issues

5 updates
resolvedAug 12, 04:41 PM

Between 16:03 and 16:29 UTC on August 12, some users encountered errors when viewing pull requests, issues, and search results. During this period, about 1.9% of Pull Request requests and 0.9% of Issues requests failed. During a database migration, two indexes were removed while application settings still referenced them, causing affected requests to fail. We detected the issue after the migration reached one database shard and before it progressed to the remaining shards. We restored service by disabling both settings. We are improving safeguards around database migrations and application configuration to prevent similar mismatches from causing errors.

monitoringAug 12, 04:38 PM

We identified the source of errors affecting Pull Requests, Issues, and Search on GitHub.com and have applied a mitigation. A database index hint was referencing an index that had been removed by a recent migration, causing query failures for some users. We disabled the problematic configuration and are seeing recovery across affected services. We are continuing to monitor to confirm full resolution.

monitoringAug 12, 04:35 PM

The degradation affecting Issues and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 12, 04:24 PM

We are investigating reports of errors affecting Pull Requests and Issues on GitHub.com. Some users may encounter 500 errors when loading pull request and issue pages. Our engineering teams are actively investigating the root cause, which appears to be related to a database infrastructure issue. We will provide an update as soon as we have more information.

investigatingAug 12, 04:16 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Issues and Pull Requests

minorresolvedAug 11, 02:50 PM — Resolved Aug 11, 08:06 PM

Incident with GraphQL API Requests

6 updates
resolvedAug 11, 08:06 PM

On August 11, 2026, between 14:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC the GraphQL API service was degraded and customers in saw higher than normal timeouts. On average, the timeout rate was 0.06% and peaked at 0.14% of requests routing to the service. This was due to increased utilization at one of our sites which caused resource contention across our dependencies, leading to an increase in timeouts for GraphQL requests. We mitigated the incident by increasing capacity to alleviate the capacity bottleneck. We are working to improve our monitoring so that we can proactively reduce the impact of high consumption requests in addition to scaling up; Additionally, we will improve our time to detection and mitigation of issues like this one in the future.

monitoringAug 11, 08:06 PM

We have identified and mitigated increased error rates affecting GraphQL API requests. A fix to increase service capacity has been deployed and error rates have returned to normal levels. We are resolving this incident.

monitoringAug 11, 04:49 PM

The degradation affecting API Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 11, 04:49 PM

We have returned to a healthy baseline on GraphQL API requests. We will continue to work on investigations into the errors seen during this incident.

investigatingAug 11, 03:28 PM

We are investigating reports of a small increase in error rates affecting GraphQL API requests. We are working on increasing capacity and continue to investigate the increased errors. We will provide another update when we have more information

investigatingAug 11, 02:50 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests

minorresolvedAug 10, 08:27 PM — Resolved Aug 10, 09:50 PM

Disruption with Copilot for access to some models

6 updates
resolvedAug 10, 09:50 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.

monitoringAug 10, 09:50 PM

We have deployed and validated the fix to prevent immediate reoccurrence. We will be performing additional work to limit these kinds of failures in the future.

monitoringAug 10, 09:19 PM

The issue has been mitigated across all affected environments. We are currently deploying on a fix to prevent reoccurrence. We will provide another update once the fix has been deployed.

monitoringAug 10, 08:49 PM

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

monitoringAug 10, 08:39 PM

We are currently investigating reports of some Copilot users experiencing issues accessing certain models. Affected users may see errors or degraded functionality when attempting to use specific models. We are actively working on a fix and will provide updates as we have more information.

investigatingAug 10, 08:27 PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

minorresolvedAug 10, 06:02 PM — Resolved Aug 10, 06:46 PM

Disruption with creation of fine grained personal access tokens

5 updates
resolvedAug 10, 06:46 PM

On August 10, 2026, between 17:16 and 18:21 UTC, users were unable to create new fine-grained personal access tokens (FG PAT) through the GitHub website. When a user submitted the FG PAT creation form, they were returned to the FG PAT list without an error message and no FG PAT was created. Creating classic personal access tokens, as well as editing or deleting existing FG PAT were not affected.The cause was a change to how the website loads certain front-end JavaScript that was enabled for all users at 17:15 UTC; the change interacted with an issue in the token creation form's confirmation step that prevented it from running, so the final submission that actually creates the token never completed. Because the page still loaded and the server returned a normal response, the failure produced no error message. GitHub mitigated the incident by disabling the change at 18:21 UTC, at which point token creation recovered immediately, and the incident was resolved at 18:46 UTC.To reduce the chance of recurrence, GitHub is adding monitoring and alerting for anomalies in the FG PAT creation success rate and is removing the issue in the FG PAT creation form that prevented the confirmation step from running. GitHub is also adding automated detection of the issue so other areas of the GitHub front end do not repeat the problem.

monitoringAug 10, 06:22 PM

We identified the source of the issue affecting creation of fine-grained personal access tokens and have applied a mitigation. Users should now be able to create new fine-grained tokens successfully. We are continuing to monitor to confirm full recovery.

monitoringAug 10, 06:21 PM

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 10, 06:09 PM

We are investigating reports of users being unable to create fine-grained Personal Access Tokens. Attempting to create a new token redirects the user back to the token overview page without an error message, but the token was not created.

investigatingAug 10, 06:02 PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

criticalresolvedAug 6, 03:22 PM — Resolved Aug 7, 02:04 AM

Incident with Actions

24 updates
resolvedAug 7, 02:04 AM

On August 6, 2026, between 15:05 UTC and 00:14 UTC on August 7, GitHub Actions experienced degraded availability. During the incident, workflow runs failed or remained queued for an extended period of time. Customers using both GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners were affected. At peak, 71% of workflow runs experienced infrastructure failures and 75% of the remaining workflow runs were delayed by more than 5 minutes. The incident was triggered by a routine deployment to an internal Actions service responsible for processing events and generating Actions jobs. The deployment exposed an existing capacity and concurrency weakness. As pods were replaced during the deployment, remaining capacity became saturated, causing services to crash and triggering a cascading impact across multiple clusters and downstream services. These services recovered at 17:00 after expanding capacity, throttling incoming webhook-triggered work to allow the system to recover, and increasing processing capacity for the backlog of affected events. As the incident progressed, a backlog of work accumulated across the systems responsible for assigning jobs to runners. Due to a latent bug in one of the services responsible for job assignment, runners were getting assigned jobs that were no longer valid and then getting stuck retrying those jobs, preventing them from picking up valid work. This second stage of impact was mitigated by deploying changes to prevent runners from repeatedly attempting to acquire invalid jobs. These mitigations allowed the accumulated queues to drain and Actions to recover to normal operation. Some Actions Runner Controller (ARC) runners remained stuck after the incident. A mitigation deployed during the incident inadvertently affected these runners, causing some to remain offline until they were manually recovered. We subsequently rolled back the change and are adding automatic recovery in upcoming Runner and ARC releases. Some jobs created during the incident were also left stuck unable to be retried or canceled. CLI and UI solutions for customers to address these were shared at https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/204152#discussioncomment-17946043. To prevent recurrence, we are making improvements to deployment and capacity safeguards for the affected services, strengthening monitoring for the conditions that preceded the incident, improving the resiliency and recovery of queued work and runner assignment, and adding automatic recovery for self-hosted runners affected by similar failure conditions. We are also making additional improvements to reduce the risk of cascading failures and accelerate recovery during large-scale Actions disruptions.

monitoringAug 7, 02:03 AM

During the incident, some Actions Runner Controller (ARC) runner pods became stuck in an idle state. Affected users can delete those pods using kubectl or redeploy their Actions Runner Controller application. ARC will automatically create replacement runners.The next releases of Actions Runner and Actions Runner Controller will include an automatic recovery mechanism, preventing the need for these manual steps in the future.Some workflow-triggering events, including push and pull request events, were not processed during the incident and cannot be replayed automatically. Customers may need to repeat the triggering action by pushing a new commit, updating the pull request, or manually re-running the workflow where applicable.

monitoringAug 7, 12:59 AM

We’re investigating reports that some Actions Runner Controller runners are taking longer than expected to recover. We’ll provide an update as our investigation progresses.

monitoringAug 7, 12:06 AM

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 7, 12:05 AM

The degradation affecting Actions and Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 7, 12:01 AM

System-wide queues have been drained, and new jobs are being processed as expected. The fix for self-hosted runners not picking up jobs has been fully rolled out.Webhook-triggered Actions workflows have been restored to full throughput. GitHub Pages, Copilot code review, and Copilot coding agent are showing recovery. Migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer remain paused as a precaution.We are monitoring all affected services for sustained recovery and will provide another update shortly.

investigatingAug 7, 12:01 AM

System-wide queues have been drained, and new jobs are being processed as expected. The fix for self-hosted runners not picking up jobs has been fully rolled out.Webhook-triggered Actions workflows have been restored to full throughput. GitHub Pages, Copilot code review, and Copilot coding agent are showing recovery. Migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer remain paused as a precaution.We are monitoring all affected services for sustained recovery and will provide another update shortly.

investigatingAug 6, 11:13 PM

We have deployed fixes that address runners being assigned invalid jobs and are taking additional steps to clear the backlog of affected jobs. Job completion rates for running workflows have improved significantly, with success rates now at 99%. Global queues for hosted runner assignment are nearly burned down and concurrency queues for customers are being processed. Another change was deployed to accelerate processing the backlog of job requests.We are gradually restoring throughput for webhook-triggered Actions workflows and monitoring system stability. We have deployed a fix for self-hosted runners that were not picking up jobs and are enabling it incrementally.GitHub Pages, Copilot code review, and Copilot coding agent may still experience intermittent failures or delays. Migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer remain paused.We continue to monitor recovery across all affected services and will provide another update as conditions improve.

investigatingAug 6, 10:18 PM

We continue to make progress on the issue affecting GitHub Actions. We have deployed a fix that addresses runners being assigned jobs that are no longer valid, and are seeing improvement in job completion rates. For workflow runs that are starting, success rates have increased significantly and are now at 97%. Standard and larger runners are now draining queued work. A change is also in progress to mitigate issues with existing self-hosted runners that are not picking up jobs.Webhook triggers remain throttled to support recovery. Many push and pull request events are not yet triggering new workflow runs, and we are working to safely restore full throughput.GitHub Pages, Copilot code review, and Copilot coding agent may still experience failures or delays. Migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer remain paused.We are continuing to monitor recovery and will provide another update as conditions improve.

investigatingAug 6, 09:30 PM

We are continuing to work on an issue affecting GitHub Actions. Webhook triggers remain throttled to aid recovery, so many push and pull request events are not triggering new workflow runs.We identified runners being assigned jobs that are no longer valid and are deploying a change to address this issue. Both GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners are affected.Copilot code review, Copilot coding agent, and GitHub Pages may experience failures or delays. Migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer have been paused to support mitigation efforts.

investigatingAug 6, 08:34 PM

We are continuing to work on an issue affecting GitHub Actions. Webhook triggers are currently throttled to help with recovery and and we are processing approximately 15% of webhooks, so many events such as pushes and pull requests are not triggering workflow runs. Of jobs queued, approximately 65% are succeeding, improved from a low of 30 to 40% earlier in this incident.We have narrowed the remaining impact to runners that are stuck retrying jobs that are no longer available. Both GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners are affected, and we are working to recover them.Copilot code review, Copilot coding agent, and migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer may also be affected.

investigatingAug 6, 07:43 PM

We are continuing to work on an issue affecting GitHub Actions. Capacity remains constrained and jobs may still be delayed or fail while it recovers gradually. Customers using self-hosted runners may see errors or rate limiting when runners register.  Copilot code review, Copilot coding agent, and migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer may also be affected. Webhook deliveries may be delayed. Our engineers remain actively engaged.

investigatingAug 6, 06:46 PM

We are continuing to work on an issue affecting multiple GitHub services. Workflow runs are still failing, and jobs may remain queued for an extended period before starting or may time out. Jobs using GitHub-hosted runners are particularly affected while capacity is constrained. Customers using self-hosted runners may see errors or rate limiting when runners register. Copilot code review, Copilot coding agent, and migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer may also be affected. Webhook deliveries may be delayed. Recovery is taking longer than we expected, and engineers remain actively engaged.

investigatingAug 6, 06:11 PM

We are continuing to work on an issue affecting multiple GitHub services. Workflow runs are still failing or delayed in starting, and some queued jobs may time out. Customers using self-hosted runners may see errors or rate limiting when runners register. Copilot code review, Copilot coding agent, hosted runners, and migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer may also be affected. Webhook deliveries may be delayed.Engineers have applied further mitigations and are continuing to work towards full recovery.

investigatingAug 6, 05:40 PM

We are continuing to work on an issue affecting multiple GitHub services.Workflow runs are failing or delayed in starting, and some queued jobs may time out. Copilot code review, Copilot coding agent, hosted runners, and migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer might also affected. Webhook deliveries may be delayed. Engineers have applied a number of mitigations and are rolling out a further fix across all affected systems now.

investigatingAug 6, 05:02 PM

We are continuing to work on the issue affecting GitHub Actions. Workflow runs are still failing or delayed in starting, and some queued jobs may time out. Some requests to the Actions API are returning errors. Customers running migrations with GitHub Enterprise Importer may see failures. Our engineers have applied several mitigations and are rolling out a further fix now.

investigatingAug 6, 04:33 PM

Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 6, 04:27 PM

We are continuing to work on the issue affecting GitHub Actions. Some workflow runs are still delayed or failing to complete, and some requests to the Actions API are returning errors. Customers running migrations with GitHub Enterprise Importer may also see failures. Engineers are actively working towards full recovery.

investigatingAug 6, 04:27 PM

Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 6, 04:19 PM

Pages is operating normally.

investigatingAug 6, 03:53 PM

Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 6, 03:45 PM

We are investigating errors affecting GitHub Actions. Some workflow runs are failing to start or failing partway through, and some requests to the Actions REST API are returning errors. Some customers may also see unexpected rate limiting in their workflows. Engineers have identified the source of the disruption and are actively working on a mitigation

investigatingAug 6, 03:41 PM

Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingAug 6, 03:22 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

minorresolvedAug 6, 03:03 PM — Resolved Aug 6, 04:22 PM

Incident with Pages - Deployment Lag

3 updates
resolvedAug 6, 04:22 PM

On August 6, 2026, at 07:00 UTC, a configuration change inadvertently reduced the capacity of the service that processes GitHub Pages deployments. As traffic increased over the following hours, latency in the deployment pipeline progressively increased. At 12:09 UTC, latency crossed the alerting threshold and the team began investigating. We reverted the invalid configuration and applied additional mitigations, including reducing status deployment processing to lower the load on our Redis cluster. Latency returned to normal levels at 15:40 UTC. Customer impact occurred from 11:34 to 15:32 UTC. During this period, we failed to process approximately 128,000 deployments. We have updated our alerts to detect elevated processing latency sooner and to notify us immediately when latency causes deployment processing failures. We've confirmed this incident was not fully captured by our availability metrics. In the coming days, we'll update how GitHub Pages availability is measured so incidents like this are accurately reflected going forward.

monitoringAug 6, 03:50 PM

The degradation affecting Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 6, 03:03 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pages

minorresolvedAug 5, 11:38 AM — Resolved Aug 5, 01:00 PM

Some Copilot Cloud Agent jobs not starting

4 updates
resolvedAug 5, 01:00 PM

On August 5, 2026, between 11:02 and 11:54 UTC, the GitHub Copilot cloud agent service was degraded and new cloud agent jobs were delayed from starting. During this period 100% of newly submitted agent jobs were affected. The incident was limited to delay of cloud agent jobs. No jobs were lost and the queued backlog was processed by 13:00 UTC. This was due to an internal rate limit used to protect service availability that was enabled more broadly than intended delaying more traffic than expected. The service recovered when the rate limit window expired. We then tuned the control so it no longer affected unrelated coding agent traffic. We are working to improve the control's scoping and our monitoring and alerting to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of similar issues in the future.

monitoringAug 5, 12:10 PM

Copilot cloud agent jobs have recovered and the backlog of delayed jobs is being processed.

monitoringAug 5, 12:01 PM

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 5, 11:38 AM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

minorresolvedAug 3, 09:53 AM — Resolved Aug 3, 11:25 AM

Incident with Copilot

5 updates
resolvedAug 3, 11:25 AM

On 2026-08-03, between 06:52 and 11:25 UTC, some GitHub Copilot users experienced errors when using chat and agent features. Requests to list the available models failed, and because every chat or agent interaction begins by retrieving the list of models, affected users saw their requests fail. On average about 3% of these model-listing requests failed during the incident (roughly 97% succeeded), but failures were significantly higher during peak-traffic periods, at times approaching 100% for the affected internal lookups. Approximately 4,066 users were affected in a single 60-minute window, concentrated among IDE-based clients. The underlying AI models themselves remained healthy throughout.The incident was caused by an increase in how often clients requested the model list, which pushed an internal user-authorization lookup past a rate limit; the rate-limited responses were surfaced to users as errors. We mitigated the impact by increasing how long Copilot caches that authorization lookup, which reduced load on the internal service, and we have additional capacity and rate-limit changes in progress. To prevent recurrence we are improving monitoring for this class of failure, adjusting cache and rate-limit settings, and coordinating with client teams on request patterns.

monitoringAug 3, 11:19 AM

The degradation affecting Copilot has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 3, 10:35 AM

We are still seeing intermittent errors with Copilot, and are continuing to investigate and consider mitigations.

investigatingAug 3, 09:54 AM

We are experiencing degraded availability for chat & agent models in Copilot. Multiple models are impacted and customers may experience requests failing. We are investigating and will provide an update as soon as possible.

investigatingAug 3, 09:53 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot

minorresolvedAug 1, 06:03 PM — Resolved Aug 1, 06:44 PM

Incident with Copilot AI Model Providers

6 updates
resolvedAug 1, 06:44 PM

On August 1, 2026, between 17:47 UTC and 18:20 UTC, users of the Fable 5 model in GitHub Copilot experienced increased request failures and latency. The average failure rate across all Copilot requests was 0.007%, while failures for Fable 5 peaked at 5.6%. Other models remained available. This was caused by degradation of an upstream model provider.The affected endpoint recovered, and we monitored the service until error rates and latency returned to normal levels. We are working to add endpoint redundancy to mitigate similar provider issues in the future.

monitoringAug 1, 06:23 PM

The issues with our upstream model provider have been resolved, and Fable 5 is once again available in Copilot products and IDE surfaces.We will continue monitoring to ensure stability, but mitigation is complete.

monitoringAug 1, 06:20 PM

The degradation affecting Copilot AI Model Providers has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 1, 06:20 PM

We are experiencing degraded availability for the Fable 5 model in Copilot products and IDE surfaces. This is due to an issue with an upstream model provider. While we work with them to resolve the issue, we recommend choosing another model or selecting 'Auto' to continue using Copilot.

investigatingAug 1, 06:03 PM

We are seeing increased error rates from specific upstream AI Model Providers

investigatingAug 1, 06:03 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot AI Model Providers

minorresolvedAug 1, 11:16 AM — Resolved Aug 1, 12:30 PM

Degraded availability GPT 5.6 Luna

5 updates
resolvedAug 1, 12:30 PM

On August 1st, 2026, the GPT-5.6 Luna model in GitHub Copilot experienced degraded availability in intermittent time intervals between ~08:05 UTC and ~16:30 UTC. Specifically the timeframes observed were 10:00-10:20 UTC, 10:45-11:50 UTC, 13:00-14:25 UTC, and 16:00-16:30 UTC. During this time, requests to GPT-5.6 Luna in Copilot chat and IDE surfaces frequently failed or timed out. This was caused by an issue with an upstream model provider. Other Copilot models were not affected, and users could continue working by selecting another model or 'Auto'. Availability for GPT-5.6 Luna fully recovered once the provider resolved their outage at 16:30 UTC.

investigatingAug 1, 12:29 PM

The issues with our upstream model provider have been resolved, and GPT-5.6 Luna is once again available in Copilot products and IDE surfaces.We will continue monitoring to ensure stability, but mitigation is complete.

investigatingAug 1, 12:13 PM

We keep working with our upstream model provider, and are observing recovery. We continue monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingAug 1, 11:20 AM

We are experiencing degraded availability for the GPT-5.6 Luna model in Copilot products and IDE surfaces. This is due to an issue with an upstream model provider. While we work with them to resolve the issue, we recommend choosing another model or selecting 'Auto' to continue using Copilot

investigatingAug 1, 11:16 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot AI Model Providers

July 2026(26 incidents)

minorresolvedJul 30, 09:07 AM — Resolved Jul 30, 10:12 AM

Copilot model Claude Fable 5 experiencing elevated errors

4 updates
resolvedJul 30, 10:12 AM

On July 30, 2026, the Claude Fable 5 model in GitHub Copilot experienced degraded availability for approximately 73 minutes, from 08:33 to 09:46 UTC. During this time, requests to Claude Fable 5 in Copilot chat and IDE surfaces frequently failed or timed out. This was caused by an issue with an upstream model provider. Other Copilot models were not affected, and users could continue working by selecting another model or 'Auto'. Availability for Claude Fable 5 fully recovered once the provider resolved their outage at 09:46 UTC, and we confirmed resolution at 10:12 UTC.

investigatingJul 30, 10:11 AM

The issues with our upstream model provider have been resolved, and Claude Fable 5 is once again available in Copilot products and IDE surfaces.We will continue monitoring to ensure stability, but mitigation is complete.

investigatingJul 30, 09:17 AM

We are experiencing degraded availability for the Claude Fable 5 model in Copilot products and IDE surfaces. This is due to an issue with an upstream model provider. While we work with them to resolve the issue, we recommend choosing another model or selecting 'Auto' to continue using Copilot.

investigatingJul 30, 09:07 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot AI Model Providers

minorresolvedJul 29, 08:07 PM — Resolved Jul 29, 09:51 PM

Incident with Copilot AI Model Providers

7 updates
resolvedJul 29, 09:51 PM

On July 29, 2026, between 19:45 UTC and 21:51 UTC, users of the Fable 5 model in GitHub Copilot experienced increased request failures and latency. The average failure rate across all Copilot requests was 0.006%, while failures for Fable 5 peaked at 21%. Other models remained available. This was caused by degradation of an upstream model provider.The affected endpoint recovered, and we monitored the service until error rates and latency returned to normal levels. We are working to add endpoint redundancy to mitigate similar provider issues in the future.

investigatingJul 29, 09:51 PM

The external ai model provider has resolved the issues, and we have verified Copilot's traffic is fully recovered.

investigatingJul 29, 09:08 PM

The external AI model provider is continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 29, 08:38 PM

The external AI model provider has identified the issue and is working to resolve.

investigatingJul 29, 08:18 PM

We are investigating increased error rates affecting GitHub Copilot requests to external AI model providers. Some users may experience failures or degraded performance when using Copilot features.

investigatingJul 29, 08:07 PM

We are seeing increased error rates with requests to specific model providers.

investigatingJul 29, 08:07 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot AI Model Providers

majorresolvedJul 29, 03:26 PM — Resolved Jul 29, 04:00 PM

Incident with Actions

4 updates
resolvedJul 29, 04:00 PM

On July 29, 2026, from 14:51 UTC to 15:28 UTC, GitHub Actions experienced elevated REST API request timeouts and errors, failures registering runners, and delayed workflow run starts for customers whose traffic was served by a single infrastructure site. This was caused by an under-provisioned internal Actions service in that site: under increased load its instances ran out of memory and became unresponsive, and because Actions API requests wait synchronously on that service, requests routed through the affected site stalled and timed out. During the incident, approximately 2% of workflows were delayed. Requests served by other sites remained unaffected. Both standard and larger hosted runners routed through the affected site could see delayed job starts. The issue was mitigated by scaling out the runner-administration service in the affected site and increasing the replica count, which restored API availability and returned workflow run starts to normal. We are working to add horizontal autoscaling, memory-saturation alerting, and scaling-forecast monitoring for this service, along with responder playbooks, to reduce the likelihood of similar issues in the future.

monitoringJul 29, 03:40 PM

The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 29, 03:34 PM

We are investigating an issue affecting GitHub Actions. Some customers may experience timeouts or failures with runner registration and workflow runs may be delayed during startup. Our team is actively working to mitigate the impact by scaling capacity across additional infrastructure.

investigatingJul 29, 03:26 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

minorresolvedJul 27, 03:53 AM — Resolved Jul 27, 04:09 AM

Incident with GraphQL API Requests

3 updates
resolvedJul 27, 04:09 AM

On July 26, 2026 at 21:34 UTC we began seeing intermittent errors on the GitHub GraphQL API. A subset of GraphQL API requests returned HTTP 502 errors in short bursts. During the impact window an average of 0.09% of GraphQL API requests in the affected region failed, with a peak of 0.50% of requests failing during the worst two-minute period at 03:02 UTC on July 27. Requests that failed generally succeeded when retried, and no data was lost or altered. Other GitHub services were not affected.The errors were traced to a single group of servers handling a share of GraphQL API traffic. Application processes on that group intermittently closed connections before completing responses. Impact ended at 03:52 UTC on July 27 when those processes were replaced, and we resolved the incident at 04:09 UTC on July 27 after confirming error rates had returned to normal.We are still investigating why those processes closed connections, and that work is being carried out by the team that owns the underlying compute platform. In the meantime we are adding detection and automated mitigation for when a single group of servers behaves differently from its peers.

monitoringJul 27, 04:09 AM

The degradation affecting API Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 27, 03:53 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests

criticalresolvedJul 25, 12:31 PM — Resolved Jul 25, 01:13 PM

Actions run failures and delays

6 updates
resolvedJul 25, 01:13 PM

Please refer to the combined summary in this related incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/s65j9gslmfm8

monitoringJul 25, 01:12 PM

We have seen recovery in GitHub Actions performance following our earlier mitigation. Workflow runs are processing normally, though jobs queued before 12:40 UTC may still experience failures and will need to be retried.

monitoringJul 25, 12:59 PM

The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 25, 12:58 PM

We have applied a mitigation for the infrastructure issue affecting GitHub Actions. Workflow run failures and delays are improving but not yet fully resolved. Our engineering team continues to work on restoring full functionality across all affected infrastructure.

investigatingJul 25, 12:34 PM

We are experiencing issues with GitHub Actions that are causing workflow run failures and delays for some users. Our engineering team is actively investigating the infrastructure issue and working to restore full functionality.

investigatingJul 25, 12:31 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

majorresolvedJul 25, 09:42 AM — Resolved Jul 25, 10:11 AM

Several GPT models degraded

4 updates
resolvedJul 25, 10:11 AM

On July 25, 2026, between 09:07 and 10:04 UTC, the GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 Mini, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna models experienced degraded availability in GitHub Copilot products and IDE surfaces. Requests to these models had an average failure rate of 5.6%. Other Copilot models remained available as alternatives.The degradation was caused by an issue with an upstream model provider. Success rates returned to normal after the upstream issue was mitigated, and we continued monitoring before resolving the incident. We are working on improving the automated failover for the affected models to prevent similar incidents in the future.

monitoringJul 25, 10:04 AM

The degradation affecting Copilot AI Model Providers has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 25, 09:48 AM

We are experiencing degraded availability for the GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 Mini, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna models in Copilot products and IDE surfaces. This is due to an issue with an upstream model provider. While we work with them to resolve the issue, we recommend choosing another model or selecting 'Auto' to continue using Copilot.

investigatingJul 25, 09:42 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Copilot AI Model Providers

minorresolvedJul 25, 08:59 AM — Resolved Jul 25, 09:25 AM

Incident with Actions

4 updates
resolvedJul 25, 09:25 AM

On July 25, 2026, GitHub Actions experienced two related periods of degradation that caused some workflow runs to be delayed by more than 5 minutes or end with infrastructure failures. First period (08:45 – 09:13 UTC): During planned maintenance on a critical-path Redis cluster for Actions, one participating region was left in a degraded state. Separately, an independent capacity operation temporarily removed another region from the cluster and redirected its traffic to the degraded region. This created cross-region inconsistencies in job-assignment state, causing workflow runs to be delayed, exhaust retries, or fail outright. At peak, about 7% of runs were delayed by more than 5 minutes, and 25% of runs failed with an infrastructure error during the course of the incident. We mitigated the incident at 09:13 UTC by returning traffic to its normal distribution. Second period (12:08 – 12:48 UTC): As part of mitigating the first incident, traffic was returned to the regional instance that was still undergoing its capacity increase. Multiple Redis nodes in the scaling region experienced failures, increasing traffic to healthy nodes and causing connection limits to be reached on many nodes. At peak, 30% of runs were delayed by more than 5 minutes, and 60% of runs failed with an infrastructure error during the course of the incident. We mitigated the incident at 12:48 UTC by redirecting workflow traffic away from the scaling region. We are adding stronger regional health and capacity checks before maintenance and requiring a stable observation period before restoring traffic. We are also improving automated connection resiliency, and partnering with our platform dependency to automatically detect and remediate unhealthy cluster members and shard imbalance. More generally, we already had work underway to improve the resiliency and scale of this piece of Actions infrastructure.

monitoringJul 25, 09:20 AM

We identified an issue causing delays in GitHub Actions run starts. Some users may have experienced longer than expected wait times when triggering workflow runs. We have applied mitigations and have recovered. Our team continues to monitor and investigate the root cause.

monitoringJul 25, 09:13 AM

The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 25, 08:59 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

criticalresolvedJul 24, 07:37 PM — Resolved Jul 24, 08:23 PM

Incident with Pull Requests

6 updates
resolvedJul 24, 08:23 PM

Between July 24, 19:17 UTC and July 24, 20:02 UTC, users were unable to create pull requests due to a database schema change. In total, 113,930 pull request creation attempts were impacted across 50,904 users, with an average error rate of 1.75% and a maximum error rate of 2.25% for all requests to Pull Requests service. Existing pull requests and other GitHub functionality were not affected. The issue was resolved by reverting the change to the affected database, upon which pull request creation immediately resumed.The root cause was related to a backfill workflow into the Vitess keyspace hosting Pull Request data. The backfill Vitess command encountered errors and increased VReplication lag, and the workflow was canceled at 19:17 UTC. The cancellation executed a misunderstood Vitess codepath that dropped the backing table to the target keyspace, leaving a non-existent reference that resulted in errors creating Pull Requests. The mitigation was executing a command to drop the vschema reference to the dropped table, allowing Pull Request creation to resume.We are adding stronger pre-flight validation to our tooling to prevent similar issues and expanding lower-environment support to provide better test coverage end-to-end before promoting them to production. We're also fixing our backfill migration tooling to protect from this specific codepath.

monitoringJul 24, 08:02 PM

The degradation affecting Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 24, 07:59 PM

We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring for recovery

investigatingJul 24, 07:43 PM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 24, 07:40 PM

We are investigating errors creating pull requests

investigatingJul 24, 07:37 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests

majorresolvedJul 24, 04:17 PM — Resolved Jul 24, 05:36 PM

Disruption with some GitHub services

12 updates
resolvedJul 24, 05:36 PM

On July 24th at 16:04 UTC, a loss of connectivity occurred in network paths in one of our three physical data center availability zones (AZs). This resulted in packet loss due to the remaining active paths becoming saturated. Our data centers use a leaf-spine switch fabric in each compute cage, and an aggregation layer interconnecting the spines from each cage within each AZ. The loss of connectivity affected links between one cage’s spine switches and the aggregation layer within that specific AZ. Workloads depending on compute resources in this cage became degraded due to packet loss, and exhibited intermittent errors: - Actions saw 10% of jobs fail during the impact window, and 5% of jobs succeeded but with delayed starts. - 27% of GitHub issues interactions saw slow requests or timeouts. - 4% of GitHub Copilot requests experienced errors, though most automatically retry. - 4% of git push operations saw impacts during the affected window. - Authentication requests saw increased latency during the affected window, but error rates, while elevated, were We were able to mitigate the outage by re-routing affected connections to available fiber paths that were allocated for future capacity upgrades. Sufficient network capacity to eliminate packet loss was restored at 17:07, with most services showing full recovery by 17:16. All paths were restored and services healthy at 17:36. This incident affected 25% of available network interconnect capacity. Older cages utilize a 100Gbps network interface standard. To remove risk of reoccurrence, a planned upgrade to 400Gbps interfaces is being accelerated as much as possible, ensuring increased bandwidth available at all layers of the switch fabric for resiliency to path or device loss.

investigatingJul 24, 05:24 PM

We are seeing recovery across all services

investigatingJul 24, 05:16 PM

The degradation affecting API Requests, Actions, Copilot, Issues, Pages and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 24, 04:41 PM

Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 24, 04:40 PM

We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring for recovery

investigatingJul 24, 04:28 PM

Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 24, 04:27 PM

Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 24, 04:26 PM

Copilot is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 24, 04:22 PM

We are investigating timeouts to some GitHub services

investigatingJul 24, 04:20 PM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 24, 04:19 PM

Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 24, 04:17 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests and Issues

noneresolvedJul 24, 11:00 AM — Resolved Jul 24, 11:00 AM

Incident With Blocked GitHub.com Traffic

1 update
resolvedJul 24, 03:56 PM

Between July 23, 2026 at 18:45 UTC and July 24, 2026 at 11:19 UTC, an abuse mitigation update caused some legitimate customers whose traffic was routed through our Central Europe and South America edge locations to be incorrectly blocked from GitHub.com. We estimate that approximately 0.25% of GitHub.com requests were affected during this period. This was caused by an abuse mitigation configuration that incorrectly classified legitimate traffic. We mitigated the incident by reverting the update. We are adding validation and safeguards to prevent similar incorrect blocking in the future.

majorresolvedJul 23, 07:53 AM — Resolved Jul 23, 09:39 AM

Latency issues across a number of services

10 updates
resolvedJul 23, 09:39 AM

On July 23, 2026, between 07:08 and 09:39 UTC, several services experienced delays: 8% of actions workflow runs experienced an average run start delay of 10 minutes, 5% of webhook deliveries exceeded SLO, and code scanning, repos, notifications, issues and pull requests experienced increased latency over the life of the incident. The root cause of the incident was a node of our background job processing system which did not recover after entering scheduled host maintenance. The incident was mitigated by identifying the problematic shard and restoring its correct state, after which queue backlogs drained and services recovered. To speed mitigation, we have added monitors for nodes in this unhealthy state after maintenance operations. To prevent future recurrence, we are adapting our lifecycle automation to verify host rejoin after a scheduled reboot.

monitoringJul 23, 09:39 AM

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 23, 09:35 AM

Webhooks is operating normally.

investigatingJul 23, 09:27 AM

The degradation affecting Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 23, 09:22 AM

We identified the source of latency affecting multiple services and applied a fix. Issues and Actions are recovering, and remaining affected services are seeing improvement as processing backlogs clear. We are actively monitoring recovery across all services.

investigatingJul 23, 09:19 AM

The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 23, 09:18 AM

The degradation affecting Issues has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 23, 08:34 AM

We're currently investigating latency across multiple services. This can show as Actions jobs taking longer to start, Issues search serving stale results, and other listed services being similarly impacted.

investigatingJul 23, 08:25 AM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 23, 07:53 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Issues and Webhooks

minorresolvedJul 22, 08:43 PM — Resolved Jul 22, 10:09 PM

Disruption with actions hosted runners

5 updates
resolvedJul 22, 10:09 PM

On July 22, 2026, between 19:36 UTC and 22:04 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 15% of workflow runs on hosted runners were delayed by more than 5 minutes, while roughly 1% failed to start.At 21:49 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.

monitoringJul 22, 10:01 PM

The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 22, 10:01 PM

The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 22, 08:47 PM

Approximately 3% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners are experiencing run start delays exceeding 5 minutes. A small portion of these runs may fail after extended delays. We have identified the cause and are working on a mitigation.

investigatingJul 22, 08:43 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

criticalresolvedJul 21, 10:31 AM — Resolved Jul 21, 11:57 AM

Some SSH connections using deploy keys are failing

4 updates
resolvedJul 21, 11:57 AM

On July 21, 2026, between 07:41 UTC and 11:57 UTC, the SSH Authentication service was degraded and some SSH connections failed to authenticate. On average, 12.2% of SSH authentication requests failed, peaking at 15.7%. Both user RSA keys and deploy keys were impacted. This was due to a change in how our SSH service handled one public-key authentication method that caused the affected authentication attempts to be rejected as invalid. We mitigated the incident by reverting the change, after which SSH authentication returned to normal. We are working to expand our automated test coverage for our SSH public-key authentication flows to catch more edge cases and to improve observability and alerting on SSH authentication failures, to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of issues like this one in the future.

investigatingJul 21, 11:46 AM

We have identified a recent code change as a potential cause of the SSH authentication failures affecting deploy key connections. Our engineering team is rolling back this change. Customers using deploy keys for SSH access to repositories may continue to experience intermittent connection failures until the fix is deployed.

investigatingJul 21, 11:04 AM

We are investigating reports of intermittent SSH authentication failures affecting connections that use deploy keys. Customers may experience failed SSH connections when interacting with repositories via deploy keys. Our engineering team is actively investigating the root cause and working toward resolution.

investigatingJul 21, 10:31 AM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

minorresolvedJul 20, 04:03 PM — Resolved Jul 20, 06:37 PM

Disruption with GPT 5.3 Codex

6 updates
resolvedJul 20, 06:37 PM

Between 06:39 and 18:11 UTC on July 20, 2026, the Copilot service experienced a degradation of the GPT 5.3 model due to an issue with our upstream provider. The upstream model provider returned intermittent errors for GPT 5.3 Codex requests, which caused some responses to fail. Auto mode requests that had selected GPT 5.3 Codex were also impacted. On average about 2% of GPT 5.3 Codex requests failed during this window. Copilot automatically routed eligible traffic away from the impacted provider to reduce customer impact. No other models were impacted.We worked with the upstream provider throughout the incident and confirmed sustained recovery before resolving.

investigatingJul 20, 06:25 PM

We are seeing signs of sustained recovery from the upstream provider for GPT 5.3 Codex requests. Requests are succeeding as expected. We are awaiting confirmation from the provider that the issue is fully mitigated before resolving this incident.

investigatingJul 20, 05:21 PM

The upstream provider continues to return intermittent errors for GPT 5.3 Codex requests. Some users may experience failed or interrupted responses when using this model. Traffic continues to be automatically rerouted to reduce impact, and we are actively working with the upstream provider on a resolution. In the meantime, selecting an alternative model will avoid disruption.

investigatingJul 20, 04:39 PM

We identified that an upstream provider is returning errors for GPT 5.3 Codex requests, causing some users to experience failed or interrupted responses. Traffic is being automatically rerouted to mitigate impact. We are working with the upstream provider to resolve the underlying issue. We recommend using a different model at this time while we resolve the problem.

investigatingJul 20, 04:04 PM

We are investigating GPT Codex 5.3 performance.

investigatingJul 20, 04:03 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot AI Model Providers

criticalresolvedJul 19, 11:34 PM — Resolved Jul 20, 04:44 AM

Incident with GitHub Actions

18 updates
resolvedJul 20, 04:44 AM

Between July 19, 2026, at 23:05 UTC and July 20, 2026, at 03:55 UTC, Actions self-hosted and larger runners were unable to connect to GitHub. During this period, Actions jobs were delayed or failed when trying to acquire a runner. Jobs using standard and Mac hosted runners were not affected. Reconnection traffic from affected runners also increased load on GitHub APIs, resulting in 3-4 seconds of additional average request latency and elevated 5xx error rates. The incident was caused by a certificate lifecycle management failure in a subset of internal services, resulting in an SSL certificate expiration that disrupted runner connectivity. We restored service by rotating the affected certificate. Recovery began at 02:45 UTC. By 03:55 UTC, queued workflow backlog had been processed and workflow delay rates returned to normal.To prevent recurrence, we are strengthening certificate renewal automation, adding fallback expiry monitoring and alerting, and improving circuit-breaker protections during runner API disruptions to reduce the risk of cascading impact to other APIs.

monitoringJul 20, 04:43 AM

Actions has fully recovered, and we will continue to monitor the platform to ensure stability.

monitoringJul 20, 03:34 AM

The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 20, 03:27 AM

We’re seeing recovery across all impacted Actions runners. The team is continuing to monitor for global recovery.

investigatingJul 20, 03:03 AM

API Requests is operating normally.

investigatingJul 20, 02:43 AM

Issues, API Requests, and Pages have recovered. We are continuing to work on restoring GitHub Actions jobs using self-hosted or larger-hosted runners.

investigatingJul 20, 02:23 AM

API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 20, 02:20 AM

Issues is operating normally.

investigatingJul 20, 01:37 AM

Pages is operating normally.

investigatingJul 20, 01:11 AM

We continue to work on mitigative efforts to restore Actions workflow runners, and have observed that the extended downtime has started to cause knock-on effects to other services.A separate incident was opened before we understood they were related. We will continue to post updates on this incident.

investigatingJul 20, 12:52 AM

Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 20, 12:49 AM

Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 20, 12:48 AM

Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 20, 12:20 AM

Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 20, 12:07 AM

API Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 19, 11:57 PM

We have identified the cause of failures in GitHub Actions and are working to restore service.

investigatingJul 19, 11:37 PM

We are investigating degraded availability for GitHub Actions on github.com and in GHEC DR stamps. New workflows may delay or fail to start, and ongoing runs may fail. We will provide more information as soon as we can.

investigatingJul 19, 11:34 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

majorresolvedJul 20, 12:25 AM — Resolved Jul 20, 01:46 AM

Disruption with some GitHub services

6 updates
resolvedJul 20, 01:46 AM

Between July 19, 2026, at 23:05 UTC and July 20, 2026, at 03:55 UTC, Actions self-hosted and larger runners were unable to connect to GitHub. During this period, Actions jobs were delayed or failed when trying to acquire a runner. Jobs using standard and Mac hosted runners were not affected. Reconnection traffic from affected runners also increased load on GitHub APIs, resulting in 3-4 seconds of additional average request latency and elevated 5xx error rates.The incident was caused by a certificate lifecycle management failure in a subset of internal services, resulting in an SSL certificate expiration that disrupted runner connectivity. We restored service by rotating the affected certificate. Recovery began at 02:45 UTC. By 03:55 UTC, queued workflow backlog had been processed and workflow delay rates returned to normal.To prevent recurrence, we are strengthening certificate renewal automation, adding fallback expiry monitoring and alerting, and improving circuit-breaker protections during runner API disruptions to reduce the risk of cascading impact to other APIs.

investigatingJul 20, 01:45 AM

Git LFS API success rates have returned to normal. We will continue to monitor the service closely.

investigatingJul 20, 01:15 AM

The Git LFS API issues have been identified as being related to a separate incident where Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We’re consolidating our investigation efforts under that incident.

monitoringJul 20, 12:26 AM

Some Git LFS operations, and loading files through the API are failing. We are investigating.

monitoringJul 20, 12:25 AM

Some Git LFS operations, and loading files through the API are failing. We are investigating.

investigatingJul 20, 12:25 AM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

majorresolvedJul 16, 10:51 PM — Resolved Jul 17, 12:14 AM

Degraded REST API Availability

7 updates
resolvedJul 17, 12:14 AM

From 22:21 UTC - 23:50 UTC on July 16, 2026, the REST API experienced significant degradation. During this period, about 39% of REST API requests failed with HTTP 500 level responses, with the errors peaking at 44.3%. We identified the issue as an infrastructure change that wrongly marked the majority of API backends in a single region as unhealthy. As a result, requests routed to those backends failed before reaching the application layer. To prevent this from happening again, we're improving our systems to catch this kind of invalid configuration before it reaches production. We'll also audit the related systems to make them more resilient to future changes, and we're increasing our monitoring sensitivity so we're alerted to problems like this sooner.

monitoringJul 17, 12:14 AM

As of 23:46 UTC, the REST API service is reachable and responding to requests normally.

monitoringJul 17, 12:00 AM

The degradation affecting API Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 16, 11:29 PM

We are continuing to investigate an issue causing approximately 35% of REST API requests to fail.  Based on our current understanding, requests are not consistently reaching the application layer, resulting in failed requests returning HTML responses instead of the expected API response format. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide another update as soon as more information is available.

investigatingJul 16, 10:58 PM

API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 16, 10:58 PM

We are aware of degraded REST API availability and are investigating

investigatingJul 16, 10:51 PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

minorresolvedJul 16, 09:05 PM — Resolved Jul 16, 10:04 PM

Claude Fable 5 experiencing degraded performance

3 updates
resolvedJul 16, 10:04 PM

On July 16, 2026, GitHub Copilot users experienced elevated errors when using Claude Fable 5 from 17:33 UTC until mitigation at 22:04 UTC. The average error rate was 1.4%, with a maximum error rate of 30.85%. The issue was caused by degradation at an upstream model provider; other Copilot models were not significantly affected, and users could avoid the impact by selecting another model or Auto. Service recovered after the provider mitigated the degradation.

investigatingJul 16, 09:06 PM

We are experiencing degraded availability for the Claude Fable 5 model in Copilot products and IDE surfaces. This is due to an issue with an upstream model provider. While we work with them to resolve the issue, we recommend choosing another model or selecting 'Auto' to continue using Copilot.

investigatingJul 16, 09:05 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot AI Model Providers

criticalresolvedJul 16, 09:13 AM — Resolved Jul 16, 12:20 PM

Disruption with some GitHub services

4 updates
resolvedJul 16, 12:20 PM

On July 16, 2026, between 08:50 UTC and 09:50 UTC, the GitHub MCP Server’s web_search tool experienced elevated failures. The average error rate was 42% and peaked at 82% of requests to the tool. Other GitHub MCP Server tools were unaffected. This was caused by degradation at a downstream web search provider.The incident was mitigated when the downstream provider recovered, after which we confirmed that the tool’s success rate had returned to normal.We are improving the tool’s resilience and failure handling to reduce the customer impact and duration of similar incidents.

monitoringJul 16, 10:17 AM

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

monitoringJul 16, 09:30 AM

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 16, 09:13 AM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

minorresolvedJul 14, 05:38 PM — Resolved Jul 14, 06:01 PM

Incident with Webhooks

4 updates
resolvedJul 14, 06:01 PM

On July 14, 2026, between 15:17 and 15:37 UTC, a rollout to GitHub's internal webhook delivery pipeline caused a subset of webhook delivery records to not be written to our webhook deliveries store after being processed and delivered successfully. Affected deliveries would be missing from the webhook delivery UI and API and won’t be available for redelivery. The root cause was an uncoordinated rollout: a change to how delivery records are handed off between pipeline components was deployed before the upstream components producing those records were updated to match. While the rollout was in progress, affected records were silently skipped rather than persisted, with no automatic retry. The impact ended as soon as the rollout was completed. About 2.4M delivery records were skipped (approximately 4% of the 20-minute impact window, 0.04% of a typical 24-hour period). Importantly, 95% of these skipped deliveries reached customer endpoints successfully, only the record of the delivery is missing. Of the ~5% that failed to reach customer endpoints, only ~1.4% (5,463) map to webhooks that retried their deliveries in the past 28 days. To prevent recurrence, we are improving our automated detection of unsafe schema changes and tightening rollout coordination for changes that span multiple components in the pipeline.

monitoringJul 14, 05:55 PM

The degradation affecting Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 14, 05:55 PM

Between 15:17 and 15:27 UTC, an ongoing deployment had an unintended side effect where webhook delivery states were not persisted in all cases, even when deliveries were accepted and processed. Customers may notice missing webhook deliveries in the UI, and these deliveries will not be retryable.Impact resolved automatically once the deployment completed.

investigatingJul 14, 05:38 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Webhooks

minorresolvedJul 14, 08:21 AM — Resolved Jul 14, 09:56 AM

Disruption with some GitHub services

4 updates
resolvedJul 14, 09:56 AM

On July 14, 2026, the GitHub Codespaces service was degraded during two periods — between 06:00 UTC and 09:56 UTC, and again between 10:54 UTC and 12:53 UTC — and some users experienced intermittent failures or delays when creating new codespaces. Impact was concentrated in a subset of geographic regions. During the first period, the error rate averaged 0.5% and peaked at 4.6% of codespace creation requests. The second period was more pronounced, peaking at approximately 30% of codespace creation requests in the most-affected region before recovery. Both periods were caused by an unexpected surge in codespace creation from an abusive actor that drained the available compute capacity in the affected regions faster than it could be replenished. We mitigated the impact by identifying and stopping the sources of the excess creation volume, reducing the resources that could be consumed in the affected regions, and rebalancing traffic across regions to restore capacity. Codespace creation success rates returned to normal after each period. We are working to add automated, low-latency controls to throttle abnormal codespace creation and to strengthen our detection and safeguards, so we can reduce our time to detection and mitigation of issues like this in the future.

monitoringJul 14, 09:51 AM

The degradation affecting Codespaces has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 14, 08:22 AM

Codespaces is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 14, 08:21 AM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

majorresolvedJul 13, 01:32 PM — Resolved Jul 13, 01:53 PM

Actions runs are experiencing failures to start

4 updates
resolvedJul 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.

monitoringJul 13, 01:39 PM

The degradation affecting Actions and Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 13, 01:32 PM

Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 13, 01:32 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

criticalresolvedJul 9, 04:34 AM — Resolved Jul 9, 01:52 PM

Delays starting Actions runs

14 updates
resolvedJul 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.

monitoringJul 9, 01:41 PM

Actions, Pages builds, Copilot Cloud Agent, and Copilot Code review have all recovered and are mitigated.We are continuing to monitor to ensure full recovery, and investigating the health of the affected infrastructure.

monitoringJul 9, 01:39 PM

The degradation affecting Actions and Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 9, 01:17 PM

We are continuing to monitor slow recovery in Actions and Pages builds as the system works through the high volume of backlog.Customers may see a small rate of  API and job failures as the system is recovering.Copilot Cloud Agent and Copilot Code Review also failed to start for approximately 30 minutes during this incident, and we are monitoring recovery.Pages were accessible throughout the incident.

investigatingJul 9, 01:16 PM

Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 9, 12:54 PM

We're seeing Actions and Pages recovery. For a period of approximate 20 minutes ~96% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners were failing to start, but has now recovered and we are seeing jobs processing.GitHub pages builds were also failing during that period, but Pages are still accessible.We are continuing to monitor for full recovery.

investigatingJul 9, 12:46 PM

Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 9, 12:36 PM

Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 9, 12:01 PM

Approximately 30% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners are experiencing run start delays exceeding 5 minutes. A smaller percentage of those are exhausting retries and failing to start.This has caused some customers to exceed their hosted compute concurrency and experience increased impact.We are continuing to working on infrastructure mitigations. Next update in one hour.

investigatingJul 9, 10:15 AM

Approximately 30% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners are experiencing run start delays exceeding 5 minutes. A smaller percentage of those are exhausting retries and failing to start.

investigatingJul 9, 10:07 AM

Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 9, 06:01 AM

We are continuing to work on a mitigation.

investigatingJul 9, 04:51 AM

Approximately 5% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners are experiencing run start delays exceeding 5 minutes. A small portion of these runs may fail after extended delays. We have identified the cause and are working on a mitigation.

investigatingJul 9, 04:34 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

majorresolvedJul 7, 02:14 PM — Resolved Jul 7, 04:17 PM

Actions and Codespaces APIs experiencing partial failures

9 updates
resolvedJul 7, 04:17 PM

On July 7, 2026, between 14:01 UTC and 16:17 UTC the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs were degraded and returned intermittent 500-class errors for a percentage of requests. Error rates peaked at approximately 8% of Actions runner API requests and 13% of Codespaces API requests, though retries were frequently successful. In-progress Actions runs and Codespaces were not impacted and continued successfully. This was due to a recent change that did not deliver the expected performance and, under certain conditions, caused downstream errors.We mitigated the incident by rolling back the change, after which the affected services recovered.We are working to improve the resilience of our services to these conditions and to strengthen our monitoring to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of issues like this one in the future.

monitoringJul 7, 04:02 PM

The degradation affecting Actions and Codespaces has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 7, 04:00 PM

We have rolled out the mitigation and are seeing recovery.

investigatingJul 7, 03:50 PM

Customers will continue to see 500 errors for approximately 8% of Actions runner REST APIs and 13% of Codespaces REST APIs. Retries may be successful. We have identified a likely cause and are preparing a mitigation.

investigatingJul 7, 03:06 PM

Customers accessing Actions runners and Codespaces REST APIs continue to see 500 errors a percentage of the time. Retries may be successful.We continue to investigate the source of these errors.

investigatingJul 7, 02:47 PM

Customers accessing the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs may see 500 class errors a percentage of the time.  Retries may be successful.Actions runs and codespaces  in progress are continuing successfully.We are continuing to investigate the source of these errors.

investigatingJul 7, 02:32 PM

Codespaces is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigatingJul 7, 02:14 PM

Customers accessing the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs may see 500 class errors a small percentage of the time.Actions runs in progress are continuing successfully.

investigatingJul 7, 02:14 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Codespaces

minorresolvedJul 2, 04:54 PM — Resolved Jul 2, 06:25 PM

Incident with Pages

4 updates
resolvedJul 2, 06:25 PM

On July 2nd, 2026, between approximately 15:00 and 18:30 UTC, the GitHub Pages service experienced degraded deployment performance due to a surge in demand that exceeded available processing capacity. During this period, users publishing to GitHub Pages may have seen their deployments queued or taking substantially longer than usual to go live. No other GitHub services were impacted.We mitigated the incident by scaling up Pages deployment workers and provisioning additional storage capacity to clear the backlog.GitHub is reviewing capacity planning and autoscaling measures to reduce the likelihood of similar delays in the future.

investigatingJul 2, 05:57 PM

Pages deployment latency is recovering. The team continues working toward full mitigation and a return to nominal state.

investigatingJul 2, 04:56 PM

We are investigating reports of slow and failing Pages deployments. Access to Pages is unaffected.

investigatingJul 2, 04:54 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pages

minorresolvedJul 1, 10:51 AM — Resolved Jul 1, 01:26 PM

Delays in copilot budget limits resets for some users

6 updates
resolvedJul 1, 01:26 PM

On July 1, 2026, between approximately 00:00 UTC and 13:04 UTC, some GitHub Copilot customers whose budget was exhausted before the monthly reset remained incorrectly blocked from paid Copilot usage after the new billing month began, even though their budgets had reset. Some budget changes also took longer than usual to apply. Only customers with an exhausted budget were affected, which limited the impact.This was caused by a caching issue at the monthly reset: for some users, a pre-reset "budget exhausted" status was re-saved and served even though their budget had reset, so they stayed blocked. We had built a safeguard ahead of the reset to prevent this, but it did not take effect because an internal configuration service did not load its settings correctly. We resolved the incident by deploying a change that discards the outdated status and recomputes access from current budget data independently of that configuration, and by working through the backlog of budget updates.To prevent recurrence, we are ensuring pre-reset status cannot survive the monthly budget reset, adding alerting for this failure mode, and increasing capacity to absorb the monthly surge of budget updates.

monitoringJul 1, 01:05 PM

The fix has been deployed globally and we are monitoring the results

monitoringJul 1, 01:04 PM

The degradation affecting Copilot has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJul 1, 12:42 PM

A fix for the delayed resets is currently being deployed.

investigatingJul 1, 11:44 AM

We have identified the likely reason for the delays and are working on a solution.

investigatingJul 1, 10:51 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot

June 2026(3 incidents)

minorresolvedJun 30, 03:38 PM — Resolved Jun 30, 03:49 PM

Disruption with some GitHub services - Signup Flow

2 updates
resolvedJun 30, 03:49 PM

Between 15:19 UTC and 15:49 UTC on June 30, 2026, users were unable to complete the signup flow for GitHub.com/signup. Approximately 62% of new user signups failed for about 30 minutes during this window.This was caused by a configuration change to the signup flow that unintentionally blocked users from completing signup.We mitigated the incident by reverting the change, which restored successful signups. To reduce the likelihood and impact of similar issues, we are adopting staged, incremental rollouts for changes on the signup path, improving our ability to test these changes before they reach production, and adding checks to verify signup health before and during any change that affects this flow.

investigatingJun 30, 03:38 PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

minorresolvedJun 28, 05:50 PM — Resolved Jun 28, 08:55 PM

Disruption with some GitHub services

5 updates
resolvedJun 28, 08:55 PM

From June 26, 2026 at 23:40 UTC through June 28, 2026 at 20:55 UTC, Copilot Cloud Agent was degraded. The agent could fail when reporting progress, replying to pull request comments, or opening pull requests. For affected built-in tool calls, the average error rate was approximately 8%, with hourly error rates peaking around 26%.This was due to a regression introduced during a Copilot Cloud Agent runtime deployment that caused several built-in agent tools to become unavailable. In many cases, the affected tool calls failed silently so agent jobs appeared to succeed. This monitoring gap meant it took longer than expected to identify the failure. We mitigated the incident by reverting the runtime deployment to the previously stable version.We've added monitoring and alerting for this class of tool-availability error to reduce time-to-detection. We're also adding regression tests for these built-in agent tools, and improving the shipping safety for future runtime rollouts to avoid similar issues.

investigatingJun 28, 08:02 PM

Copilot cloud agent had been experiencing intermittent problems with opening pull requests, pushing changes and replying to comments. A fix has been deployed and we are validating that fix.

investigatingJun 28, 06:31 PM

Copilot cloud agent is experiencing intermittent problems with opening pull requests, pushing changes and replying to comments. We have validated a fix and are deploying that fix now.

investigatingJun 28, 05:59 PM

Copilot cloud agent is experiencing intermittent problems with opening pull requests, pushing changes and replying to comments. We have identified the issue and are validating a fix.

investigatingJun 28, 05:50 PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

minorresolvedJun 27, 02:02 PM — Resolved Jun 27, 08:33 PM

Disruption with some GitHub services

6 updates
resolvedJun 27, 08:33 PM

This incident was used to notify for a maintenance event. There is no specific root cause analysis. Work progressed as planned without any issues to report.

monitoringJun 27, 08:19 PM

Maintenance has completed and we've begun normalizing traffic in EU. We will monitor for a while longer before confirming resolution.

monitoringJun 27, 06:22 PM

This is progressing as expected, but we're going to extend the maintenance window by a couple of hours. Our new expected completion time is 21:00 UTC.

monitoringJun 27, 02:04 PM

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigatingJun 27, 02:02 PM

We are conducting routine maintenance on our network infrastructure in the EU. This will not impact production traffic, but may result in slightly increased latency for the remainder of our work. We expect this to last until 19:00 UTC.

investigatingJun 27, 02:02 PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

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