… This sits alongside our existing Partial Outage and Major Outage states, creating a three-tier system that more accurately reflects the spectrum of issues that can affect GitHub services. Previously, even with minimal service disruption, all incidents were classified at least as a partial outage. …
… While the team worked to recover the messaging infrastructure, an unintended service deployment cleared internal routing state, escalating the staleness issue into a complete outage. We restored the messaging infrastructure through a controlled restart, reestablishing coordination between services. …
Jakub Oleksy · @jakuboleksy March 11, 2026 | 5 minutes 5 minutes Share: In February, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. We recognize the impact these outages have had on teams, workflows, and overall confidence in our platform. …
… Customizing entrypoints for service containers Many GitHub Actions users have been frustrated that you cannot override the entrypoint or commands on service containers , creating many different workarounds to resolve these issues. …
… We understand the impact these outages have had on your teams, your workflows, and your confidence in our platform. …
… We understand the impact these outages have on our customers and are sharing details on the stabilization work we’re prioritizing right now. GitHub availability report: January 2026 In January, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. …
… Transient dependencies : The MySQL deploy script calls, via an API, another internal service for example, a migrations service , which in turn attempts to fetch the latest release of an open source tool from GitHub to use the new binary. …
… This was due to an outage at one of our upstream dependencies, which caused HTTP 500 errors and connection resets for our Teams integration. We coordinated with the relevant service teams, and the issue was resolved at 19:51 UTC when the upstream incident was mitigated. …
… GitHub availability report: March 2026 In March, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. …
… Graceful degradation AI services can fail. Network issues, rate limits, and service outages happen. …