What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on May 4, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 45 minutes.
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Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 16:35 | Investigating | The degradation affecting Codespaces has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 16:34 | Investigating | The degradation affecting Issues has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 16:32 | Investigating | Pull Requests is operating normally. |
| 16:29 | Investigating | Pages is operating normally. |
| 16:29 | Investigating | Latency across services has normalized. We are continuing to investigate the root cause and prevent reoccurrence. |
| 16:28 | Investigating | Actions and Packages are operating normally. |
| 16:25 | Investigating | Git Operations is operating normally. |
| 16:06 | Investigating | Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 16:05 | Investigating | Codespaces is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 15:56 | Investigating | Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 15:51 | Investigating | Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 15:51 | Investigating | Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 15:50 | Investigating | Packages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 15:48 | Investigating | Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 15:48 | Investigating | We are investigating Increased latency and timeouts across multiple GitHub services. |
| 15:45 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Issues and Webhooks |
| 16:42 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 45 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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