GitHub Services Hit by Widespread Degradation

Multiple GitHub services experiencing performance issues as company investigates root cause.

By The Downtime · Jul 24, 2026 · 4:30 PM ·Updated 4 weeks ago

GitHub is investigating reports of degraded performance and availability affecting multiple services, marking a major incident. Services impacted include API Requests, Issues, Actions, Pull Requests, Copilot, and Pages, with users reporting timeouts and reduced performance.

GitHub is a cloud-based platform where developers collaborate on code repositories and manage software projects. Millions of developers and organizations worldwide depend on the service for version control and collaborative development workflows.

The company first reported investigating timeouts to some services, followed by reports of degraded performance across Actions, Pull Requests, API Requests, and Issues. Copilot and Pages were subsequently identified as experiencing degraded performance as well. All services remain under investigation with no resolution announced.

This is a developing story. The Downtime will continue monitoring GitHub's status page for updates.

🕒 Live updates (12)

resolved Jul 24, 5:36 PM

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

investigating Jul 24, 5:24 PM

We are seeing recovery across all services

investigating Jul 24, 5:16 PM

The degradation affecting API Requests, Actions, Copilot, Issues, Pages and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigating Jul 24, 4:41 PM

Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Jul 24, 4:40 PM

We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring for recovery

investigating Jul 24, 4:28 PM

Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Jul 24, 4:27 PM

Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Jul 24, 4:26 PM

Copilot is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Jul 24, 4:22 PM

We are investigating timeouts to some GitHub services

investigating Jul 24, 4:20 PM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Jul 24, 4:19 PM

Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Jul 24, 4:17 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests and Issues

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GitHub Services Hit by Widespread Degradation

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