Major incident

GitHub: Disruption with some GitHub services

Current status of GitHub: Operational — live GitHub status

Timeline

1. Oct 5, 2026, 23:47 UTC
   investigating
   We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
2. Oct 6, 2026, 00:05 UTC
   investigating
   Users may experience issues accessing organization and enterprise billing and licensing pages. We are deploying a mitigation and monitoring for recovery.
3. Oct 6, 2026, 01:32 UTC
   resolved
   On October 5, 2026, between 23:05 UTC and 00:11 UTC on October 6, some users experienced slow page loads, timeouts, and errors when accessing organization and enterprise billing, licensing, and settings pages. On average, the error rate was 1.9% and peaked at 13.8% of requests to the service that powers these pages. This was caused by a networking failure, which disrupted connectivity between one of our on-premises datacenter regions and a subset of cloud-hosted regional database services. We mitigated the incident by shifting the database traffic to a healthy region. We are working to make regional database failover faster and more complete, reduce timeouts so these pages fail fast instead of hanging, and add latency-based alerting to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of issues like this one in the future. We continue to partner with our cloud provider to understand the underlying network failure.

Updates as published by GitHub (original).