How often does GitHub go down?

GitHub reports incidents often; we have its complete history since August 5, 2026.

When was the last GitHub outage?

The latest reported incident started on Oct 23, 2026, 23:41 UTC: "Grok 4.6 and Grok 4.7 Service Issues", resolved after 42 min.

How long do GitHub outages last?

Half of GitHub's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 1 h 18 min.

GitHub outage history and status

Q: Is GitHub down right now?

At our last check GitHub's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.

Is GitHub down right now?

All Systems Operational Official status as of Oct 26, 2026, 15:09 UTC (refreshing…)

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uptime, 90 days

incidents, 90 days

1 h 18 min

median time to fix

Oct 23, 2026

last incident

GitHub reports many incidents; its public history reaches back to August 5, 2026, so 90-day figures are not complete yet.

GitHub components

Git Operations Operational
Webhooks Operational
API Requests Operational
Issues Operational
Pull Requests Operational
Actions Operational
Packages Operational
Pages Operational
Copilot Operational
Codespaces Operational
Copilot AI Model Providers Operational

GitHub outage history

GitHub incidents per month, last 12 months. Red: months with a major or critical outage. Shaded: before our complete history.

Started (UTC)	Incident	Impact	Duration
Oct 23, 2026, 23:41 UTC	Grok 4.6 and Grok 4.7 Service Issues Copilot AI Model Providers	Minor	42 min
Oct 23, 2026, 14:58 UTC	Disruption with Dependabot Alerts	Minor	3 h 53 min
Oct 23, 2026, 07:29 UTC	Delayed Actions status check results Actions	Minor	36 min
Oct 22, 2026, 15:28 UTC	Project updates delayed API Requests, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, Packages	Minor	11 h 02 min
Oct 22, 2026, 14:18 UTC	Incident with Actions Results Actions	Minor	1 h 01 min
Oct 21, 2026, 14:52 UTC	Delays for Pull Requests and Webhook deliveries Webhooks, Pull Requests, Actions	Critical	4 h 30 min
Oct 19, 2026, 15:49 UTC	Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks Webhooks, Actions, Pages	Critical	1 h 08 min
Oct 15, 2026, 18:31 UTC	CCA Automations are delayed when starting an Automation	Minor	24 min
Oct 14, 2026, 00:12 UTC	[Retroactive] Actions workflow run logs delayed	Minor	—
Oct 12, 2026, 12:21 UTC	Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues Issues, Pull Requests, Actions	Minor	7 h 54 min
Oct 7, 2026, 17:17 UTC	Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions	Critical	48 min
Oct 7, 2026, 16:25 UTC	Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions Git Operations, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions	Critical	<1 min
Oct 6, 2026, 19:57 UTC	Several services are degraded Webhooks, Pull Requests	Critical	3 h 43 min
Oct 5, 2026, 23:47 UTC	Disruption with some GitHub services	Major	1 h 45 min
Oct 5, 2026, 19:11 UTC	Incident with Actions Actions, Pages	Critical	3 h 38 min
Oct 1, 2026, 14:47 UTC	Actions Job Delays Actions	Minor	3 h 09 min
Oct 1, 2026, 13:37 UTC	Elevated request latency	Minor	20 min
Oct 1, 2026, 11:34 UTC	[Retroactive] Actions workflow run failures after deployment gate approvals	Minor	—
Sep 28, 2026, 21:16 UTC	Copilot Code Review is unable to complete reviews	Critical	52 min
Sep 24, 2026, 16:51 UTC	Disruption with billing information updates	Minor	3 h 50 min
Sep 23, 2026, 10:11 UTC	Incident across several services API Requests	Minor	18 h 44 min
Sep 20, 2026, 22:13 UTC	Incident with Pull Requests Pull Requests	Minor	1 h 09 min
Sep 17, 2026, 20:59 UTC	Elevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by Copilot Copilot AI Model Providers	Minor	50 min
Sep 16, 2026, 07:20 UTC	Degradation with Gemini 3.8 Flash Copilot AI Model Providers	Major	10 h 28 min
Sep 15, 2026, 19:11 UTC	Disruption with some GitHub services	Minor	49 min

56 incidents in our archive since August 5, 2026.

When and where GitHub fails

By weekday

Most incidents start on Thu.

Mon13
Tue7
Wed13
Thu16
Fri5
Sat0
Sun2

Most affected, last 12 months

Actions16
Pull Requests13
Copilot AI Model Providers9
Issues8
Pages7
Webhooks6
API Requests5
Git Operations4

When GitHub went down with others

Oct 23, 2026, 14:48 UTC 27 services reported incidents within the hour
Oct 22, 2026, 11:56 UTC 57 services reported incidents within the hour
Oct 21, 2026, 11:18 UTC 109 services reported incidents within the hour
Oct 1, 2026, 13:58 UTC 27 services reported incidents within the hour
Sep 23, 2026, 10:05 UTC 12 services reported incidents within the hour

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FAQ

Is GitHub down right now?: At our last check GitHub's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.
How often does GitHub go down?: GitHub reports incidents often; we have its complete history since August 5, 2026.
When was the last GitHub outage?: The latest reported incident started on Oct 23, 2026, 23:41 UTC: "Grok 4.6 and Grok 4.7 Service Issues", resolved after 42 min.
How long do GitHub outages last?: Half of GitHub's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 1 h 18 min.

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