Outage in GitHub
Degraded REST API Availability
Resolved MajorIncident Report
Summary AI Generated
GitHub's REST API experienced a major outage lasting approximately 1.4 hours, during which roughly 35% of API requests failed due to requests not consistently reaching the application layer, causing HTML responses to be returned instead of valid API responses. The issue was mitigated and confirmed resolved, with a root cause analysis to follow.
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
Components affected
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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED
1 day ago - at 07/17/2026 12:14AM
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.
MONITORING
1 day ago - at 07/17/2026 12:00AM
The degradation affecting API Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 07/16/2026 11:29PM
We are continuing to investigate an issue causing approximately 35% of REST API requests to fail. Based on our current understanding, requests are not consistently reaching the application layer, resulting in failed requests returning HTML responses instead of the expected API response format. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide another update as soon as more information is available.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 07/16/2026 10:58PM
API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 07/16/2026 10:58PM
We are aware of degraded REST API availability and are investigating
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 07/16/2026 10:51PM
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
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