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Outage in GitHub

Incident with GraphQL API Requests

Resolved Minor
August 11, 2026 - Started 2 days ago - Lasted about 5 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

GitHub experienced degraded performance and elevated error rates affecting GraphQL API requests, lasting approximately 5.3 hours. The issue was attributed to increased error rates, with the team working to expand capacity as part of the mitigation effort. The incident was fully resolved after stabilization was confirmed during a monitoring period.

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests
Components affected
GitHub API Requests

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RESOLVED 2 days ago - at 08/11/2026 08:06PM

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 2 days ago - at 08/11/2026 04:49PM

The degradation affecting API Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 08/11/2026 04:49PM

We have returned to a healthy baseline on GraphQL API requests. We will continue to work on investigations into the errors seen during this incident.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 08/11/2026 03:28PM

We are investigating reports of a small increase in error rates affecting GraphQL API requests. We are working on increasing capacity and continue to investigate the increased errors. We will provide another update when we have more information

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 08/11/2026 02:50PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests

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