GitHub outage on April 29 — 106d 7h disruption
Apr 29, 11:40 PM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 106d 7h · high
On April 29, 2026, GitHub experienced a service outage. The incident lasted for 106 days and 7 hours, and was resolved on August 14, 2026.
Impact
During the 106-day and 7-hour period from April 29, 2026, to August 14, 2026, GitHub experienced a high-severity service disruption. This incident was detected through automated signals, including the vendor's own status page and synthetic probes. No user-reported data was collected for this incident.
Incident timeline
- Apr 29, 11:40 PM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (high severity)
- Apr 30, 12:13 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Apr 30, 12:23 AM
Status updated: major issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- Apr 29, 11:40 PM
GitHub status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - Aug 14, 07:00 AM
API issues clustered from 2 sources across 6 signals. Suppressed 5 redundant alerts and flagged flapping behavior.