GitHub experienced a critical incident on May 7, 2026, lasting 1h 54m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- investigating May 07, 2026, 05:02 AM UTC
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
- monitoring May 07, 2026, 06:13 AM UTC
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- monitoring May 07, 2026, 06:14 AM UTC
Copilot code review and cloud agents are starting again for pull requests, we are monitoring for full recovery.
- resolved May 07, 2026, 06:56 AM 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.