- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Degraded
- Components
- API Requests
- Down Index
- 36of 100
Summary
GitHub says an increase in timeouts affected some unauthenticated users, with degraded performance of API Requests and some GitHub services. It identified a problematic component and redeployed it, and the incident is now resolved. A root cause analysis will be shared later.
Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from GitHub's own updates.
What to do
Check whether you use GitHub API Requests. Check your stack
Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 1h 57m it lasted.
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Updates from GitHub 7
- investigating
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
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- investigating
We are continuing to investigate degraded performance primarily for unauthenticated users.
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- investigating
API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
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- investigating
We've identified a problematic component and are working to redeploy it.
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- investigating
The degradation affecting API Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
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- monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
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- resolved
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.
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-6e2833b271
Is GitHub still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-11-08 12:32 UTC. For GitHub's live state, see https://down.guide/github.
How long did it last?
1h 57m, from 2026-11-08 10:36 UTC to 2026-11-08 12:32 UTC, by the times GitHub posted.
What was affected?
GitHub named API Requests.
What caused it?
GitHub hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
GitHub's official status page, https://www.githubstatus.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.