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Between approximately 14:00 and 16:10 UTC on May 5, 2026, SSH-based Git operations experienced elevated latency and intermittent failures. On average, the error rate was 0.46% and peaked at 0.6% of SSH write requests. HTTP-based Git operations, including web UI and HTTPS clones, were not affected. The impact was caused by reduced SSH capacity at one of our data center sites. During a period of ...

On 2026-05-04 at 3:37:17 PM UTC we detected increased latency on issues resulting in timeouts, and elevated 500 errors on webhooks. A scheduled workload drove high utilization on the primary host of a critical datastore, saturating the connection pool. We paused the job to mitigate the problem at 4:40:05 PM UTC and have implemented measures to prevent recurrence.

On May 6, 2026, from approximately 06:45 UTC to 09:15 UTC, GitHub Actions Standard Ubuntu hosted runners were degraded. 17.1% of jobs requesting a standard runner failed. This was caused by an unexpected data shape in the allocation configuration data for standard runners. That data was introduced as part of post-incident remediation work for an incident the previous day and caused new allocati...

On May 5, 2026, from approximately 13:22 UTC to 17:05 UTC, GitHub Actions hosted runners in the East US region were degraded. 13.5% of jobs requesting a standard runner failed and ~16% of requested Larger Runners with private networking pinned to East US failed or were delayed by more than 5 minutes. Copilot Code Review requests were also impacted. Approximately 8,500 code review requests timed...