Increased Latency and Failures for SSH Git Operations
Incident Lifecycle
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
The degradation affecting Git Operations has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
May 5, 2026 at 6:25 PM UTC
Investigating
We're continuing to work on preventing further impact from the earlier issue. No SSH-based impact is expected at this time. We'll post new updates if impact recurs or once our mitigation is in place.
May 5, 2026 at 5:26 PM UTC
Investigating
Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
May 5, 2026 at 5:23 PM UTC
Monitoring
Between approximately 14:00 and 16:10 UTC, customers using SSH-based Git operations may have experienced elevated latency and failures. HTTP-based operations were not impacted. We've identified a suspected root cause and are working to implement a mitigation to prevent further impact.
May 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM UTC
Investigating
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
May 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM UTC
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