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[Retroactive] Incident with GitHub.com

Degraded Lasted 0m · started · GitHub's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Down Index
8of 100

What to do

  • Check whether your product depends on GitHub. 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 0m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-05-15 03:30 UTC and 2026-05-15 02:30 UTC may need a replay.
  • Subscribe to GitHub's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

    https://down.guide/feed?provider=github works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from GitHub 1

  1. resolved

    Beginning at 02:49 UTC on May 15 2026 and lasting until 03:04 UTC, GitHub.com was unavailable for a subset of customers. This impact has been mitigated and normal service resumed. The issue was rooted in a sudden spike in traffic, with intermittent impact. We've identified the source of the traffic and prevented further disruption.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-d69b19e963

Is GitHub still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-05-15 02:30 UTC. For GitHub's live state, see https://down.guide/github.

How long did it last?

0m, from 2026-05-15 03:30 UTC to 2026-05-15 02:30 UTC, by the times GitHub posted.

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.