GitHub experienced a major outage lasting approximately 1.4 hours on July 24, 2026, during which API Requests, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, GitHub Pages, and Copilot all suffered degraded performance or availability. The incident began with timeouts and performance issues that cascaded across multiple services before a mitigation was applied roughly 20 minutes in. Full recovery was confirmed and the incident resolved by 17:36 UTC, with a root cause analysis to follow.
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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.
We are seeing recovery across all services
The degradation affecting API Requests, Actions, Copilot, Issues, Pages and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring for recovery
Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Copilot is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
We are investigating timeouts to some GitHub services
Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests and Issues
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