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GitHub outage: Disruption with some GitHub services

GitHub reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 5, 2026, 23:47 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 45m.

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Oct 5, 2026, 23:47 UTC
started
Oct 6, 2026, 01:32 UTC
resolved
1h 45m
duration
Major
impact
  1. resolvedOct 6, 2026, 01:32 UTC

    This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

  2. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 00:05 UTC

    Users may experience issues accessing organization and enterprise billing and licensing pages. We are deploying a mitigation and monitoring for recovery.

  3. investigatingOct 5, 2026, 23:47 UTC

    We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

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