GitHub incident

Degraded availability for GitHub.com, GraphQL API, and Webhooks UI/API

Resolved on June 8, 2026.

resolved Jun 09, 2026, 03:48 PM UTC

On June 8, 2026, between 14:49 and 14:54 UTC, a subset of requests to GitHub.com, the REST API, GraphQL API, and Webhooks UI/API experienced elevated error rates due to a transient infrastructure capacity issue that self-resolved within approximately 5 minutes. Users experienced HTTP 500 errors and timeouts when accessing GitHub.com, the REST API, GraphQL API, and Webhooks UI/API for approximately 5 minutes, with the REST API taking up to 12 minutes to fully recover.

Started
Jun 08, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 08, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC
Duration
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Detected by Pingoru
Jun 08, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC

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  1. resolved Jun 09, 2026, 03:48 PM UTC

    On June 8, 2026, between 14:49 and 14:54 UTC, a subset of requests to GitHub.com, the REST API, GraphQL API, and Webhooks UI/API experienced elevated error rates due to a transient infrastructure capacity issue that self-resolved within approximately 5 minutes. Users experienced HTTP 500 errors and timeouts when accessing GitHub.com, the REST API, GraphQL API, and Webhooks UI/API for approximately 5 minutes, with the REST API taking up to 12 minutes to fully recover.

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