GitHub outage, 5 October 2026
Disruption with some GitHub services
- Started
- Resolved
- 6 Oct 2026, 01:32 UTC (after 1 h 44 min)
- Impact
- Major
Last update from GitHub
On October 5, 2026, between 23:05 UTC and 00:11 UTC on October 6, some users experienced slow page loads, timeouts, and errors when accessing organization and enterprise billing, licensing, and settings pages. On average, the error rate was 1.9% and peaked at 13.8% of requests to the service that powers these pages.<br /><br />This was caused by a networking failure, which disrupted connectivity between one of our on-premises datacenter regions and a subset of cloud-hosted regional database services. We mitigated the incident by shifting the database traffic to a healthy region.<br /><br />We are working to make regional database failover faster and more complete, reduce timeouts so these pa...
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