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GitHub outage: Disruption with GitHub services

GitHub reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 30, 2026, 14:31 UTC. It was resolved after 32 min.

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Oct 30, 2026, 14:31 UTC
started
Oct 30, 2026, 15:02 UTC
resolved
32 min
duration
Critical
impact

Affected components

  • Issues
  • Pages
  1. resolvedOct 30, 2026, 15:02 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. monitoringOct 30, 2026, 14:49 UTC

    The degradation affecting Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  3. investigatingOct 30, 2026, 14:48 UTC

    A temporarily overloaded component triggered a burst of errors between 14:21 and 14:30 UTC across numerous services. Component health has returned to normal and we continue to monitor while investigating the root cause.<br />

  4. investigatingOct 30, 2026, 14:45 UTC

    Issues is operating normally.

  5. investigatingOct 30, 2026, 14:39 UTC

    Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  6. investigatingOct 30, 2026, 14:36 UTC

    Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  7. investigatingOct 30, 2026, 14:35 UTC

    We are investigating degraded performance across multiple services. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation.

  8. investigatingOct 30, 2026, 14:31 UTC

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

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Oct 30, 2026, 14:39 UTCoperational → degraded
  • Oct 30, 2026, 14:54 UTCdegraded → operational

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