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GitHub incident: Degraded performance for multiple GitHub services

GitHub reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Nov 5, 2026, 23:36 UTC. It was resolved after 45 min.

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Nov 5, 2026, 23:36 UTC
started
Nov 6, 2026, 00:20 UTC
resolved
45 min
duration
Minor
impact

Affected components

  • Actions
  • Git Operations
  • Issues
  • Pages
  1. resolvedNov 6, 2026, 00:20 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 6, 2026, 00:19 UTC

    This incident has been resolved. All affected services, including Git operations, Issues, Actions, and API access, have recovered and remained stable. Thank you for your patience. We'll share more details in our availability report.

  3. investigatingNov 6, 2026, 00:19 UTC

    Git Operations is operating normally.

  4. monitoringNov 6, 2026, 00:06 UTC

    We've applied a mitigation and are seeing recovery across affected services, including Git operations, Issues, Actions, and API access. We're monitoring to confirm stability and will post another update by 00:35 UTC.

  5. monitoringNov 6, 2026, 00:06 UTC

    The degradation affecting Actions, Issues and Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  6. investigatingNov 5, 2026, 23:58 UTC

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

  7. investigatingNov 5, 2026, 23:36 UTC

    We're investigating degraded performance and errors affecting several GitHub services, including Git operations, Issues, Actions, and API access. Some users may see failed requests or slow responses. We'll post another update by 00:05 UTC.

  8. investigatingNov 5, 2026, 23:36 UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pages

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Nov 5, 2026, 23:41 UTCoperational → degraded
  • Nov 6, 2026, 00:11 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does GitHub have incidents?

GitHub reported 67 incidents in the last 90 days, 24 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 15m. See GitHub's uptime and incident history