What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on April 16, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 2 hours 31 minutes.
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Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 18:22 | Monitoring | The degradation affecting Codespaces has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 16:37 | Investigating | Our provider is implementing a mitigation and we are seeing signs of recovery. |
| 15:49 | Investigating | We found an issue that impacts 70% of Codespaces. We are engaged with the provider and working towards mitigation. |
| 15:41 | Investigating | Codespaces is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 15:08 | Investigating | We are experiencing degraded performance in Codespaces related to creating a new Codespace or starting an existing Codespace from the VS Code editor. SSH connections to Codespaces are not impacted.... |
| 15:06 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Codespaces |
| 18:31 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 2 hours 31 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
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