GitHub experienced a major incident on July 24, 2026 affecting API Requests and Issues and 1 more component, lasting 1h 19m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 24, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests and Issues
- investigating Jul 24, 2026, 04:19 PM UTC
Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Jul 24, 2026, 04:20 PM UTC
Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Jul 24, 2026, 04:22 PM UTC
We are investigating timeouts to some GitHub services
- investigating Jul 24, 2026, 04:26 PM UTC
Copilot is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Jul 24, 2026, 04:27 PM UTC
Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Jul 24, 2026, 04:28 PM UTC
Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Jul 24, 2026, 04:40 PM UTC
We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring for recovery
- investigating Jul 24, 2026, 04:41 PM UTC
Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Jul 24, 2026, 05:16 PM UTC
The degradation affecting API Requests, Actions, Copilot, Issues, Pages and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- investigating Jul 24, 2026, 05:24 PM UTC
We are seeing recovery across all services
- resolved Jul 24, 2026, 05:36 PM UTC
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.