Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users

Incident Report for GitHub

Monitoring

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

Posted Nov 09, 2026 - 06:51 UTC

Update

We are debugging a spike in anonymous traffic. Some users who are not logged in may see errors on the site. CI jobs and release downloads may fail with a 504 Gateway Timeout status if they make anonymous calls.

Posted Nov 09, 2026 - 06:30 UTC

Investigating

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

Posted Nov 09, 2026 - 05:59 UTC