GitHub outage on May 5 — 5h 56m disruption
May 5, 01:51 PM → May 5, 07:48 PM · 5h 56m · high
On May 5, 2026, GitHub experienced a service disruption, which was detected through user reports. The incident began at approximately 13:51 UTC and was resolved by 19:48 UTC on the same day.
Impact
Users reported experiencing issues with GitHub, leading to a total of 243 reports during the incident. The primary reported issue types included slow or unresponsive service, accounting for 120 reports, and the website being down, with 118 reports. A small number of users also reported security-related issues. No specific top impacted regions were recorded during this period.
Top reported issues
- Slow / unresponsive120
- Website down118
- Security issue5
Incident timeline
- May 5, 01:51 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- May 5, 01:53 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 01:58 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 02:08 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 02:13 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 02:23 PM
Status updated: possible issue
- May 5, 02:28 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 05:15 PM
Peak of 19 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 2.0)
- May 5, 07:48 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 01:51 PM
GitHub status page acknowledged the incident.
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