What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on May 7, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 1 hour 55 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 09:19 | Monitoring | The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 09:08 | Investigating | We've applied a mitigation to fix the issues with queuing and running Actions jobs. We are seeing improvements in telemetry and are monitoring for full recovery. |
| 08:00 | Investigating | Actions is experiencing issues with ubuntu standard hosted runners leading to high wait times. We are actively investigating the issue |
| 07:19 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions |
| 11:25 | Investigating | We are investigating issues with the ability to start Copilot Cloud Agent sessions and view them. |
| 11:21 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. |
| 17:52 | Investigating | Creation of new Pull Request threads (including line and file comments) continues to be affected although we are seeing partial recovery.<br /><br />A mitigation is being applied to continue to acc... |
| 16:20 | Investigating | Creation of new Pull Request threads (including line and file comments) continues to be affected. <br /><br />Top-level comments on pull requests still function and should remain usable during reco... |
| 16:07 | Investigating | Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 15:55 | Investigating | Creation of new Pull Request threads (including line and file comments) continues to be affected. We have identified the cause of the issue and have started taking steps to mitigate this issue. |
| 15:28 | Investigating | We are investigating failures for new thread creation on Pull Requests. Responses to existing pull request threads are unaffected. |
| 15:25 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests |
| 06:14 | Monitoring | Copilot code review and cloud agents are starting again for pull requests, we are monitoring for full recovery. |
| 06:13 | Monitoring | The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 05:02 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. |
| 07:02 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 1 hour 55 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
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