GitHub outage on May 5 — 2h 59m disruption
May 5, 04:28 PM → May 5, 07:28 PM · 2h 59m · critical
GitHub experienced a critical service outage on May 5, 2026. The incident began at 16:28:51 UTC and was resolved at 19:28:16 UTC, lasting for 2 hours and 59 minutes. The issue was detected via user reports.
Impact
During the incident, users reported that the GitHub website was down and experienced slow or unresponsive performance. A small number of reports also mentioned security issues. The outage was detected through user reports and correlated across multiple monitoring signals, including official vendor communications and social chatter. No specific regions were identified as being disproportionately impacted.
Top reported issues
- Website down85
- Slow / unresponsive52
- Security issue2
Incident timeline
- May 5, 04:28 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (critical severity)
- May 5, 04:53 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 05:08 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 05:13 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 05:15 PM
Peak of 19 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 2.0)
- May 5, 05:23 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 05:28 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 05:33 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 05:38 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 05:43 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 05:48 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 05:54 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 05:58 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 07:28 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 04:28 PM
GitHub status page acknowledged the incident.
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