GitHub outage on May 5 4h 26m disruption
May 5, 03:11 PM → May 5, 07:38 PM · 4h 26m · medium
GitHub experienced a service disruption on May 5, 2026. This incident was detected via user reports indicating various issues with the platform. The disruption was resolved on May 5, 2026, at 19:38 UTC.
Impact
Users reported a range of issues during the GitHub service disruption. The most frequently reported problems included the website being slow or unresponsive, accounting for 92 reports, and the website being completely down, with 85 reports. A small number of users also reported security-related issues. In total, 179 user reports were received during the 4-hour and 26-minute incident, indicating widespread impact across the platform.
Top reported issues
- Slow / unresponsive92
- Website down85
- Security issue2
Incident timeline
- May 5, 03:11 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)
- May 5, 03:43 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 03:53 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 03:58 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 04:08 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 04:13 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 04:23 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 04:28 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 04:38 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 04:43 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 04:48 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 05:15 PM
Peak of 19 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 2.0)
- May 5, 07:38 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 03:11 PM
GitHub status page acknowledged the incident.
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