Increase in timeouts for some unauthenticated users

Minor · Started Nov 8, 2026 · 10:36 AM

⚡ Pulsetic detected this 80 minutes before GitHub acknowledged it

Duration

1h 56m
Severity

Minor
Detection lead

80 min
User reports

Peak 13/hr

Summary

Increase in timeouts for some unauthenticated users

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.

Started

Nov 8, 2026 · 10:36 AM
Resolved

Nov 8, 2026 · 12:32 PM
Duration

1h 56m
Severity

Minor

Detection lead

Pulsetic caught this 80 minutes early

Pulsetic detected

~80 min before acknowledgement

User reports and synthetic probes crossed the detection threshold
GitHub acknowledged

Nov 8, 2026 · 10:36 AM

Via official status page

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

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Detected by Pulsetic
Nov 8 · 9:16 AM Pulsetic

User reports and synthetic probes crossed the detection threshold — 80 min before the official acknowledgement.
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Investigating
Nov 8 · 10:36 AM GitHub

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
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Investigating
Nov 8 · 11:16 AM GitHub

We are continuing to investigate degraded performance primarily for unauthenticated users.
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Investigating
Nov 8 · 11:20 AM GitHub

API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
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Investigating
Nov 8 · 11:50 AM GitHub

We've identified a problematic component and are working to redeploy it.
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Investigating
Nov 8 · 11:56 AM GitHub

The degradation affecting API Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
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Monitoring
Nov 8 · 12:29 PM GitHub

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
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Resolved
Nov 8 · 12:32 PM GitHub

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.