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Outage in GitHub

Disruption with some GitHub services

Resolved Minor
April 17, 2026 - Started about 15 hours ago - Lasted 22 minutes
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

GitHub experienced a 22-minute service disruption affecting approximately 10% of web traffic, causing slow and failed calls to various services including Issues, with users reporting 504 errors on login and contact pages. The incident was caused by a problematic infrastructure component that GitHub isolated and mitigated. The disruption resulted in degraded performance across multiple GitHub services before being resolved.

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

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INVESTIGATING about 15 hours ago - at 04/17/2026 03:08PM

We have isolated a problematic component in our infrastructure and are working to mitigate. We will continue to post updates as we work toward resolution.

INVESTIGATING about 15 hours ago - at 04/17/2026 02:57PM

We are experiencing an issue that impacts approximately 10% of traffic to the web, resulting in slow and failed calls. We are investigating and will continue to post updates as we work toward mitigation.

INVESTIGATING about 15 hours ago - at 04/17/2026 02:56PM

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

INVESTIGATING about 15 hours ago - at 04/17/2026 02:56PM

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

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