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Outage in GitHub

Code search experiencing degraded performance

Resolved Minor
February 23, 2026 - Started 2 days ago - Lasted about 5 hours
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Summary AI Generated

GitHub's code search service experienced degraded performance for 4.8 hours, with users encountering increased latency and timeout errors. The issue was traced to elevated CPU usage on a single shard within the code search infrastructure. GitHub identified the root cause, implemented a fix to isolate and mitigate the affected shard, and fully resolved the incident.

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

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 2 days ago - at 02/24/2026 12:46AM

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.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 02/24/2026 12:38AM

We have identified a cause for the latency and timeouts and have implemented a fix. We are observing initial recovery now.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 02/23/2026 11:10PM

Customers using code search continue to see increased latency and timeout errors. We are working to mitigate issues on the affected shard.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 02/23/2026 10:22PM

Elevated latency and timeouts for code search is isolated to a single shard experiencing elevated CPU. We are taking steps to isolate and mitigate the affected shard.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 02/23/2026 09:18PM

Elevated latency and timeouts for code search is isolated to a single shard experiencing elevated CPU. We are continuing to investigate the cause and steps to mitigate.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 02/23/2026 08:33PM

We are continuing to investigate elevated latency and timeouts for code search.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 02/23/2026 07:59PM

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

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