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GitHub partial outage on Oct 5, 2026: what happened
On Oct 5, 2026, the GitHub status page reported "Disruption with some GitHub services". About 1 hour 45 min: from Oct 5, 2026, 23:47 UTC to Oct 6, 2026, 01:32 UTC, by the official start and resolution times.
GitHub right now
At our last refresh (Oct 22, 2026, 12:35 UTC) GitHub was up: All Systems Operational.
- Started
- Oct 5, 2026, 23:47 UTC
- Resolved
- Oct 6, 2026, 01:32 UTC
- Duration
- 1 hour 45 min
- Official impact
- Major
- Source
- Disruption with some GitHub services on the GitHub status page
The GitHub status page rated the impact "Major": a partial outage. Some parts or some users were affected; it was not a complete outage.
What caused the GitHub partial outage?
"This was caused by a networking failure, which disrupted connectivity between one of our on-premises datacenter regions and a subset of cloud-hosted regional database services."
From the GitHub status page, Oct 6, 2026, 01:32 UTC.
When was it fixed?
The GitHub status page marked it resolved at Oct 6, 2026, 01:32 UTC, 1 hour 45 min after it started. Its resolution note: "On October 5, 2026, between 23:05 UTC and 00:11 UTC on October 6, some users experienced slow page loads, timeouts, and errors when accessing organization and enterprise billing, licensing, and settings pages. On average, the error rate was 1.9% and peaked at 13.8% of requests to the service that ..."
Timeline of official updates
Every update the GitHub status page posted, oldest first. Times are UTC.
Oct 5, 2026, 23:47 UTC investigating
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
Oct 6, 2026, 00:05 UTC investigating
Users may experience issues accessing organization and enterprise billing and licensing pages. We are deploying a mitigation and monitoring for recovery.
Oct 6, 2026, 01:32 UTC resolved
On October 5, 2026, between 23:05 UTC and 00:11 UTC on October 6, some users experienced slow page loads, timeouts, and errors when accessing organization and enterprise billing, licensing, and settings pages. On average, the error rate was 1.9% and peaked at 13.8% of requests to the service that powers these pages. This was caused by a networking failure, which disrupted connectivity between one of our on-premises datacenter regions and a subset of cloud-hosted regional database services. We mitigated the incident by shifting the database traffic to a healthy region. We are working to make regional database failover faster and more complete, reduce timeouts so these pages fail fast instead of hanging, and add latency-based alerting to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of issues like this one in the future. We continue to partner with our cloud provider to understand the underlying network failure.
GitHub partial outage questions
What caused the GitHub partial outage on Oct 5, 2026?
The GitHub status page said (update at Oct 6, 2026, 01:32 UTC): "This was caused by a networking failure, which disrupted connectivity between one of our on-premises datacenter regions and a subset of cloud-hosted regional database services."
When was the GitHub partial outage on Oct 5, 2026 fixed?
The GitHub status page marked it resolved at Oct 6, 2026, 01:32 UTC, 1 hour 45 min after it started. Its resolution note: "On October 5, 2026, between 23:05 UTC and 00:11 UTC on October 6, some users experienced slow page loads, timeouts, and errors when accessing organization and enterprise billing, licensing, and settings pages. On average, the error rate was 1.9% and peaked at 13.8% of requests to the service that ..."
How long did the GitHub partial outage last?
About 1 hour 45 min: from Oct 5, 2026, 23:47 UTC to Oct 6, 2026, 01:32 UTC, by the official start and resolution times.
Was GitHub completely down?
No. The GitHub status page rated the impact "Major": a partial outage. Some parts or some users were affected; it was not a complete outage.
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