GitHub outage on May 4 1h 32m disruption
May 4, 04:00 PM → May 4, 05:33 PM · 1h 32m · medium
On May 4, 2026, GitHub experienced a service disruption, detected through user reports. The incident began at approximately 16:00 UTC and was resolved by 17:33 UTC on the same day.
Impact
During the 1 hour and 32 minute disruption, a total of 91 user reports were received, indicating a widespread impact. The primary issues reported by users were related to the GitHub website being down, accounting for 66 reports, and slow or unresponsive service, with 24 reports. A single report also indicated a security issue. No specific top impacted regions were identified during this incident.
Top reported issues
- Website down66
- Slow / unresponsive24
- Security issue1
Incident timeline
- May 4, 04:00 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)
- May 4, 04:33 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 4, 04:38 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 4, 04:43 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 4, 04:45 PM
Peak of 25 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 2.0)
- May 4, 04:48 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 4, 04:53 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 4, 04:58 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 4, 05:03 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 4, 05:08 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 4, 05:13 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 4, 05:33 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 4, 04:00 PM
GitHub status page acknowledged the incident.
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