GitHub Outage History

GitHub experienced a brief disruption affecting some services, with GitHub Actions showing degraded performance. The Issues component also experienced degradation during the incident. The outage began on 1:46 PM UTC and was resolved by 2:51 PM UTC, lasting about 1 hour and 5 minutes. Users attempting to run workflows or manage issues may have encountered delays and sporadic failures.

GitHub’s status page documented the incident with two updates: first acknowledging a disruption and degraded performance in Actions, followed by a confirmation that affected components had returned to normal. The incident involved multiple components (Issues and Actions) and was resolved after a focused window of degraded service.

GitHub reported an incident affecting the Packages component, with intermittent availability issues in the NPM registry. Other package registries were unaffected. The incident began at 6:11 PM UTC and was resolved by 6:41 PM UTC, lasting about 30 minutes. GitHub issued 2 status updates during the event, noting ongoing investigations. The NPM registry service returned to normal after the investigation.

GitHub Actions experienced degraded performance for about 1 hour and 23 minutes, affecting workflows and automation. Users may have seen slower queue times, delayed builds, or intermittent failures. The issue began around 5:03 AM UTC and the status page escalated to degraded at 5:06 AM UTC.

The GitHub status page issued 2 updates during the incident, and the Actions component returned to normal by 6:26 AM UTC. The outage was limited to the Actions component.

GitHub experienced degraded search and increased failure rates across several core areas, including API Requests, Actions, Issues, and Pull Requests, with Packages later affected. Users reported missing pull request lists, empty search results, and difficulties loading PRs and releases. The incident began at 2:12 PM UTC as GitHub noted investigations into degraded performance and began collecting diagnostics. The outage lasted roughly 3 hours and 44 minutes, ending with a recovery of the affected components. The provider issued 3 status updates during the incident to share findings and progress.

GitHub issued multiple status updates detailing the ongoing investigation and the gradual restoration of services. By 5:56 PM UTC, the affected components had returned to normal and normal service resumed, with search and PR-related features functioning as expected again.

GitHub experienced degraded performance affecting the Pull Requests component, with users potentially seeing slower PR creation, updates, and related workflows. The issue began at 5:53 PM UTC and the status moved to warning at 5:56 PM UTC as engineers investigated. The outage lasted about 1 hour and 58 minutes and was resolved by 7:51 PM UTC. The provider issued 2 status updates during the incident, detailing investigation progress and recovery steps.

An incident disrupted GitHub pull requests, issues, and related automation, with Webhooks and several services showing degraded performance and intermittent errors. Users reported PR pages failing and delays in PR processing. The incident began around Aug 5, 2025 3:42 PM UTC with investigations, and at Aug 5, 2025 3:46 PM UTC the status page listed a degraded condition across Issues and Webhooks. Webhooks degraded by Aug 5, 2025 3:56 PM UTC, with broader impacts to additional components in subsequent updates. The outage affected five components: Issues, Webhooks, Git Operations, Actions, and Pull Requests, leading to partial outages and degraded performance for a broad set of workflows.

The provider issued five status updates during the incident, and user reports surged in the early phase, indicating wide impact. The incident lasted roughly 34 minutes, from around Aug 5, 2025 3:42 PM UTC to Aug 5, 2025 4:16 PM UTC, with full recovery confirmed by the final update.

GitHub reported degraded performance for Git Operations and Actions beginning at Jul 29, 2025 10:46 AM UTC as the status page noted an ongoing investigation into increased 429 errors. Users attempting Git pushes and running Actions workflows could experience slower operations or intermittent failures while the issue was investigated. The incident lasted about 1 hour and 20 minutes and included two official status updates as the situation evolved.

The incident began around Jul 28, 2025 5:31 PM UTC when Git Operations entered a degraded state. Over the next hours, the impact expanded to API Requests, Issues, and Pull Requests as additional components were degraded. By 10:40 PM UTC, API Requests, Issues, and Pull Requests were listed as degraded and investigations continued. A related note at 1:26 AM UTC indicated GitHub Enterprise Importer migrations were stalled. The affected components gradually returned to normal, with all four core areas reported back to up by Jul 29, 2025 2:06 AM UTC. The outage lasted about 8 hours and 35 minutes, during which users could have experienced slower responses or partial functionality in Git operations, workflow-related API calls, issues, and pull requests. The provider issued 4 official updates during the incident.

GitHub experienced a brief degradation in Actions Hosted Runners, with provisioning delays causing jobs to start later than expected. The incident began at 3:36 PM UTC when the Actions component moved to a degraded state, with users seeing delays of over 5 minutes for jobs starting. The issue was addressed and the service returned to normal by 4:31 PM UTC, for a total duration of about 55 minutes. The provider posted two status updates during the incident documenting investigation and subsequent recovery.

GitHub Copilot experienced a brief degradation affecting the Claude Sonnet 4 model across Copilot Chat, VS Code, and other Copilot products, while other Copilot models remained available. The incident began at 6:36 PM UTC and was resolved by 6:51 PM UTC, lasting about 15 minutes. The issue was attributed to an upstream model provider, with no impact to other Copilot models. The status page logged two updates during the event, describing the degraded availability and restoration.