GitHub Status

Aug 21, 2025

Resolved - 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.
Aug 21, 18:13 UTC

Update - We've applied a mitigation to fix the issues with queuing and running Actions jobs. We are seeing improvements in telemetry and are monitoring for full recovery.
Aug 21, 17:58 UTC

Update - The team continues to investigate issues with some Actions jobs on Hosted Runners being queued for a long time and a percentage of jobs failing. We are increasing runner capacity and will continue providing updates on the progress towards mitigation.
Aug 21, 17:21 UTC

Update - The team continues to investigate issues with some Actions jobs on Hosted Runners being queued for a long time and a percentage of jobs failing. We will continue providing updates on the progress towards mitigation.
Aug 21, 16:43 UTC

Update - We are investigating reports of slow queue times for Hosted Runners, leading to high wait times.
Aug 21, 16:05 UTC

Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions
Aug 21, 15:54 UTC

Incident with Issues and Git Operations

Resolved - 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.
Aug 21, 06:58 UTC

Update - Git Operations is operating normally.
Aug 21, 06:58 UTC

Update - Issues is operating normally.
Aug 21, 06:58 UTC

Update - The errors in our database infrastructure were related to some maintenance events that had more impact than expected. We will provide more details and follow ups when we post a public summary for this incident in the coming days. All impact to customers is resolved.
Aug 21, 06:58 UTC

Update - We saw a brief spike in failures related to some of our database infrastructure. Everything has recovered but we are continuing to investigate to ensure we don't see any reoccurrence.
Aug 21, 06:39 UTC

Update - Approximately 1% of API and web requests are seeing intermittent errors. Some customers may see some push errors. We are currently investigating.
Aug 21, 06:30 UTC

Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Git Operations and Issues
Aug 21, 06:25 UTC

Aug 20, 2025

Disruption with some GitHub services

Resolved - 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.
Aug 20, 16:37 UTC

Update - We have verified that we fixed the sign up flow and are working to ensure we don't introduce an issue like this in the future.
Aug 20, 16:37 UTC

Update - Customers may experience issues when signing up for new GitHub accounts. We are actively working on a mitigation and will post an update within 30 minutes.
Aug 20, 16:24 UTC

Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Aug 20, 16:14 UTC

Aug 19, 2025

Disruption with some GitHub services

Resolved - 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.
Aug 19, 14:46 UTC

Update - Actions is operating normally.
Aug 19, 14:46 UTC

Update - Issues is operating normally.
Aug 19, 14:46 UTC

Update - We were able to mitigate the slowness by throttling some search indexing and will work on the issues created by the increased search indexing so they do not have latency impact.
Aug 19, 14:45 UTC

Update - We are seeing slightly elevated latency on some Issues endpoints and searches for workflow runs in Actions may not return quickly.
Aug 19, 14:11 UTC

Update - Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 19, 13:45 UTC

Update - Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 19, 13:44 UTC

Update - Issues with timeouts when searching
Aug 19, 13:39 UTC

Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Aug 19, 13:39 UTC

Aug 18, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 17, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 16, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 15, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 14, 2025

Incident with Packages

Resolved - On August 14, 2025, between 17:50 UTC and 18:08 UTC, the Packages NPM Registry service was degraded. During this period, NPM package uploads were unavailable and approximately 50% of download requests failed. We identified the root cause as a sudden spike in Packages publishing activity that exceeded our service capacity limits. We are implementing better guardrails to protect the service against unexpected traffic surges and improving our incident response runbooks to ensure faster mitigation of similar issues.
Aug 14, 18:37 UTC

Update - The NPM registry has now returned to normal functioning.
Aug 14, 18:37 UTC

Update - The NPM registry service is currently experiencing intermittent availability issues. Other package registries should be unaffected. Investigations are ongoing.
Aug 14, 18:11 UTC

Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Packages
Aug 14, 18:06 UTC

Incident with Actions

Resolved - On August 14, 2025, between 02:30 UTC and 06:14 UTC, GitHub Actions was degraded. On average, 3% of workflow runs were delayed by at least 5 minutes. The incident was caused by an outage in a downstream dependency that led to failures in backend service connectivity in one region. At 03:59 UTC, we evacuated a majority of services in the impacted region, but some users may have seen ongoing impact until all services were fully evacuated at 06:14 UTC. We are working to improve monitoring and processes of failover to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of issues like this one in the future.
Aug 14, 06:23 UTC

Update - We are investigating reports of issues with service(s): Actions. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation.
Aug 14, 05:42 UTC

Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions
Aug 14, 05:03 UTC

Aug 13, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 12, 2025

Incident with search on GitHub we are seeing increased failure rates

Resolved - On August 12, 2025, between 13:30 UTC and 17:14 UTC, GitHub search was in a degraded state. Users experienced inaccurate or incomplete results, failures to load certain pages (like Issues, Pull Requests, Projects, and Deployments), and broken components like Actions workflow and label filters.

Most user impact occurred between 14:00 UTC and 15:30 UTC, when up to 75% of search queries failed, and updates to search results were delayed by up to 100 minutes.

The incident was triggered by intermittent connectivity issues between our load balancers and search hosts. While retry logic initially masked these problems, retry queues eventually overwhelmed the load balancers, causing failure. The query failures were mitigated at 15:30 UTC after throttling our search indexing pipeline to reduce load and stabilize retries. The connectivity failures were resolved at 17:14 UTC after the automated reboot of a search host, causing the rest of the system to recover.

We have improved internal monitors and playbooks, and tuned our search cluster load balancer to further mitigate the recurrence of this failure mode. We continue to invest in resolving the underlying connectivity issues.
Aug 12, 17:56 UTC

Update - Service availability has been mostly restored, but some users will continue to see increased request latency and stale search results. We are still working towards full recovery.
Aug 12, 17:07 UTC

Update - Service availability has been mostly restored, but increased load/query latency and stale search results persist. We continue to work towards full mitigation.
Aug 12, 16:33 UTC

Update - We are seeing partial recovery in service availability, but still see inconsistent experiences and stale search data across services. Investigation and mitigations are underway.
Aug 12, 15:48 UTC

Update - We are experiencing increased latency in our API layers and inconsistently degraded experiences when loading or querying issues, pull requests, labels, packages, releases, workflow runs, projects, and repositories, among others. Investigation is underway.
Aug 12, 15:20 UTC

Update - We are investigating reports of degraded performance in services backed by search. The team continues to investigate why requests are failing to reach our search clusters.
Aug 12, 14:53 UTC

Update - Packages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 12, 14:30 UTC

Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests, Actions, Issues and Pull Requests
Aug 12, 14:12 UTC

Aug 11, 2025

Disruption with some GitHub services

Resolved - On August 11, 2025, from 18:41 to 18:57 UTC, GitHub customers experienced errors and increased latency when loading GitHub’s web interface. During this time, a configuration change to improve our UI deployment system caused a surge in requests to a backend datastore. This change led to an unexpected spike in connection attempts to our datastore and saturated its connection backlog and resulted in intermittent failures to serve required UI content. This resulted in elevated error rates for frontend requests.

The incident was mitigated by reverting the configuration, which restored normal service.

Following mitigation, we are evaluating improvements to our alerting thresholds and exploring architectural changes to reduce load to this datastore and improve the resilience of our UI delivery pipeline.
Aug 11, 18:57 UTC

Update - Logged out users may see intermittent errors when loading github.com webpages. Investigation is ongoing.
Aug 11, 18:53 UTC

Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Aug 11, 18:51 UTC

Aug 10, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 9, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 8, 2025

No incidents reported.

Aug 7, 2025

No incidents reported.

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