GitHub experienced a minor incident on August 5, 2026, lasting 1h 21m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 05, 2026, 11:38 AM UTC
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
- monitoring Aug 05, 2026, 12:01 PM UTC
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- monitoring Aug 05, 2026, 12:10 PM UTC
Copilot cloud agent jobs have recovered and the backlog of delayed jobs is being processed.
- resolved Aug 05, 2026, 01:00 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.