What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on August 12, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 1 hour 20 minutes.
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Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 16:38 | Monitoring | We identified the source of errors affecting Pull Requests, Issues, and Search on GitHub.com and have applied a mitigation. A database index hint was referencing an index that had been removed by a... |
| 16:35 | Monitoring | The degradation affecting Issues and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 16:24 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of errors affecting Pull Requests and Issues on GitHub.com. Some users may encounter 500 errors when loading pull request and issue pages. Our engineering teams are act... |
| 16:16 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Issues and Pull Requests |
| 22:22 | Investigating | We have identified the root cause and are working on mitigation. Errors on the login page and downloading release assets have decreased, but we are not fully mitigated. We will continue to provide ... |
| 21:43 | Investigating | We are investigating issues with Login and when downloading Release Assets. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation. |
| 21:39 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. |
| 23:02 | 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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