What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on July 16, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 1 hour 20 minutes.
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Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 10:17 | Monitoring | The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 09:30 | Monitoring | The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 09:13 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. |
| 21:06 | Investigating | We are experiencing degraded availability for the Claude Fable 5 model in Copilot products and IDE surfaces. This is due to an issue with an upstream model provider. While we work with them to reso... |
| 21:05 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot AI Model Providers |
| 00:00 | Monitoring | The degradation affecting API Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 23:29 | Investigating | We are continuing to investigate an issue causing approximately 35% of REST API requests to fail. Based on our current understanding, requests are not consistently reaching the application layer,... |
| 22:58 | Investigating | API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 22:58 | Investigating | We are aware of degraded REST API availability and are investigating |
| 22:51 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. |
| 00:16 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 1 hour 20 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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