GitHub outage, October 2026: Incident with Dependabot

GitHub reported and resolved an incident: Incident with Dependabot. It lasted 2.5 hours.

Resolved

From GitHub's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
2.5 hours
Impact
minor

Why it happened

GitHub has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

This incident on the GitHub status page

Timeline

Newest first. From GitHub's official status page, in their words.

  1. resolved

    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.

  2. monitoring

    The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  3. investigating

    We have mitigated impact and are seeing recovery. We are monitoring for full recovery.

  4. investigating

    We are continuing to investigate elevated errors when viewing some Dependabot alerts. We’ll provide more updates as we learn more.

  5. investigating

    We are investigating elevated errors when viewing some Dependabot alerts.

  6. investigating

    We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 2.5 hours.
  • Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
  • If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.

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