GitHub outage on May 5 — 1h 53m disruption
May 5, 05:29 PM → May 5, 07:23 PM · 1h 53m · medium
GitHub experienced an outage on May 5, 2026, impacting users globally. The issue was detected through user reports and resolved on May 5, 2026, at 19:23:19 UTC.
Impact
During this incident, users reported that the GitHub website was down or slow and unresponsive. The majority of reports indicated the website was completely unavailable. The incident was detected via user reports and resolved after approximately 1 hour and 53 minutes.
Top reported issues
- Website down70
- Slow / unresponsive24
Incident timeline
- May 5, 05:29 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)
- May 5, 06:03 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 06:08 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 06:13 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 06:15 PM
Peak of 19 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 2.0)
- May 5, 06:18 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 06:23 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 06:28 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 06:33 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:38 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:43 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:48 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:53 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 06:58 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 07:23 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 05:29 PM
GitHub status page acknowledged the incident.
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