What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on April 13, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 40 minutes.
World's largest source code hosting platform with version control, CI/CD (Actions), code review, project management, and AI coding assistant (Copilot).
Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 16:59 | Investigating | We have identified the root cause and are rolling out a fix for Copilot. The services should now be in recovery, with expected full recovery in 5 to 10 minutes. |
| 16:41 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. |
| 20:32 | Monitoring | We have mitigated the issue with Pages. |
| 20:30 | Monitoring | The degradation affecting Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 19:57 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of issues with Pages. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation. |
| 19:56 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Pages |
| 20:50 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 40 minutes. GitHub runs on Azure — check those status pages if you experienced cascading issues.
Resolution
GitHub has recovered and is now operational.
What To Do Next
- View GitHub live status and outage history
- Set up alerts to get notified instantly next time GitHub has an issue
- Compare GitHub reliability with other services
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