GitHub outage, November 2026: Incident with Git Operations

GitHub reported and resolved an incident: Incident with Git Operations. It lasted 1.7 hours.

Resolved

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

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
1.7 hours
Impact
minor
Affected
Git Operations
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  3. Monitoring
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

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

How it was 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.

GitHub's closing update

This incident on the GitHub status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From GitHub's official status page, in their words.

  1. investigating

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Git Operations

  2. investigating

    We have identified the issue impacting Git Operations and are beginning to roll out a mitigation. We will follow up with another update when we begin to see recovery.

  3. investigating

    Our mitigation is rolled out and customers should start seeing improvements to Git Operations. We will continue to provide updates on mitigation status.

  4. investigating

    We are seeing significant improvement, though some Git Operations may be slow for a small set of customers. We are marking this as mitigated and will continue to monitor.

  5. monitoring

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

  6. 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.

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

  • Retry anything that failed during the 1.7 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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