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GitHubOutage history and postmortems

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No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Incidents, 90 days

Major or critical

Implied uptime

99.46%

Longest outage

20h 7m

Downtime, added up

Developer tools median

11h 41m

GitHub: 11h 41m weighted downtime in range, category median 1h 30m.

68 incidents, 7d of incident time (3d 6h major or critical, 3d 18h partial) between Jun 27, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026.

Across fru.devPaydays Changefeed SLAs

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

Stated causes

132 incidents with no cause stated.

Postmortems

GitHubAug 27, 2026 · 2h 8m
Incident with Copilot AI Model Providers
Engineering teams should monitor provider health when using third party AI model services.
Critical Dependency Read
GitHubAug 26, 2026 · 2h 50m
Incident with Actions
Teams should monitor service status when experiencing issues with automated workflow systems.
Critical Capacity Read
GitHubAug 26, 2026 · 59m
Disruption with some GitHub services
Teams should check platform status dashboards during general service disruptions.
Minor Not disclosed Read
GitHubAug 20, 2026 · 9h 54m
Intermittent failures creating agent tasks
Teams should track agent task creation pipelines to handle intermittent failures promptly.
Critical Deployment Read
GitHubAug 17, 2026 · 7h 36m
Incident with GitHub.com
Engineering teams should subscribe to platform status updates to remain informed during service incidents.
Critical Config change Read
GitHubAug 6, 2026 · 10h 42m
Incident with Actions
Teams should verify service health when experiencing disruptions with deployment actions.
Critical Bug Read

GitHub incidents

285 on file

IncidentStarted (UTC)DurationImpactRoot cause

Incident across several servicesSep 23, 2026, 10:11OngoingMinorNot disclosed
Incident with Pull RequestsSep 20, 2026, 22:131h 9mMinorNot disclosed
Elevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by CopilotSep 17, 2026, 20:5950mMinorNot disclosed
Degradation with Gemini 3.8 FlashSep 16, 2026, 07:2010h 28mMajorCapacity
Disruption with some GitHub servicesSep 15, 2026, 19:1149mMinorNot disclosed
Disruption with some GitHub servicesSep 15, 2026, 09:471h 30mMinorCapacity
Actions Larger Runner Jobs for some customers may be slow to startSep 14, 2026, 18:4055mMinorNot disclosed
Incident with several GitHub ServicesSep 13, 2026, 09:161h 29mCriticalDatabase
Degradation in repos contents APISep 4, 2026, 22:0221mMinorCapacity
Disruption with Copilot Code ReviewSep 4, 2026, 20:391h 48mMajorNot disclosed
Incident with Grok Copilot AI Model ProviderSep 3, 2026, 14:172h 54mMinorNot disclosed
Delays in commit processingSep 1, 2026, 15:001h 1mMinorCapacity
Elevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by CopilotAug 31, 2026, 09:1542mMinorNot disclosed
Incident with Copilot AI Model ProvidersAug 27, 2026, 10:042h 8mCriticalDependency
Disruption with GitHub BillingAug 26, 2026, 23:3720h 7mMinorStorage
Incident with Actions and Pull RequestsAug 26, 2026, 22:561h 30mMinorNot disclosed
Incident with ActionsAug 26, 2026, 15:112h 50mCriticalCapacity
Disruption with some GitHub servicesAug 26, 2026, 15:0959mMinorNot disclosed
Actions delays in starting runsAug 24, 2026, 13:5638mMinorStorage
Degraded Git Operations over SSHAug 24, 2026, 07:190mInformationalConfig change
Elevated errors on Fable 5 due to upstream providerAug 24, 2026, 07:1247mMajorDependency
Intermittent failures creating agent tasksAug 20, 2026, 14:439h 54mCriticalDeployment
Incident with ActionsAug 18, 2026, 09:3647mMajorCertificate
Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pagesAug 18, 2026, 07:404h 2mMinorCertificate
Incident with GitHub.comAug 17, 2026, 13:407h 36mCriticalConfig change
Disruption with GHEC Team SyncAug 13, 2026, 16:212h 6mMinorStorage
Incident with WebhooksAug 13, 2026, 14:4551mMinorNot disclosed
Errors with the Fable 5 Model in CopilotAug 13, 2026, 14:431h 4mMinorDependency
Disruption with Login and Release Asset downloadsAug 12, 2026, 21:391h 18mMajorCapacity
Incident with Pull Requests and IssuesAug 12, 2026, 16:1625mMinorDatabase

Questions

Is GitHub down right now?

Check GitHub's own status page at https://www.githubstatus.com for the live state. This page shows GitHub's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-09-23: "Incident across several services".

How often does GitHub have outages?

GitHub posted 68 incidents in the last 90 days and 285 in the last year, 25 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 1h 21m.

When was GitHub's last major outage?

2026-09-16: "Degradation with Gemini 3.8 Flash", lasting 10h 28m.

What usually causes GitHub incidents?

Where GitHub explained the cause, the most common was capacity and load (43 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.

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