Auto-drafted postmortem
GitHub outage on September 16 — 11h 35m disruption
Sep 16, 07:26 AM → Sep 16, 07:02 PM · 11h 35m · high
A disruption to GitHub services was detected on September 16, 2026, due to elevated user-report volume. The incident began at 07:26 UTC and was resolved at 19:02 UTC.
Peak reports
1
in 15 min
Total reports
79
during the incident
Duration
11h 35m
tracked by PulseWatch
Impact
Users experienced service disruption across GitHub. The incident was characterized by 79 total user reports, primarily categorized as 'Service disruption'. No specific regional impact was recorded during this period.
Top reported issues
- Service disruption79
Incident timeline
- Sep 16, 07:26 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- Sep 16, 07:26 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Sep 16, 08:30 AM
Peak of 3 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 2.0)
- Sep 16, 07:02 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- Sep 16, 07:26 AM
GitHub status page acknowledged the incident.
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