GitHub incident: Increase in timeouts for some unauthenticated users

Affected components

• API Requests

1. resolvedNov 8, 2026, 12:32 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. monitoringNov 8, 2026, 12:29 UTC

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

3. investigatingNov 8, 2026, 11:56 UTC

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

4. investigatingNov 8, 2026, 11:50 UTC

   We've identified a problematic component and are working to redeploy it.

5. investigatingNov 8, 2026, 11:20 UTC

   API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

6. investigatingNov 8, 2026, 11:16 UTC

   We are continuing to investigate degraded performance primarily for unauthenticated users.

7. investigatingNov 8, 2026, 10:36 UTC

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

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Nov 8, 2026, 11:26 UTCoperational → degraded
• Nov 8, 2026, 12:01 UTCdegraded → operational

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