Major outageGitHubMay 5, 2026

Incident with Actions

A record of the GitHub incident on May 5, 2026 (Japan time): start time, duration and severity, plus current status, what to do, and alternatives.

Started
May 5, 2026, 10:37 PM
Resolved
May 6, 2026, 02:26 AM
Duration
3h 49m
Impact
Major outage

Current status

GitHub is operating normally now. This incident has been resolved.

See current GitHub status

What you can do during an outage

Source: GitHub's official status page.

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