Incident with GitHub.com
At a glance · GitHub's status
ResolvedLasted 7 h 21 min
- First posted
- on GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status
- Ended
- · marked resolved
- Affects
- GitHub Enterprise Cloud Australia
- Edited
- Not since we first saw it
- Source
- GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status · checked 1 min ago
In short
GitHub reported a partial outage affecting GitHub Enterprise Cloud Australia, starting 13:54 UTC on 17 Aug. GitHub marked it resolved at 21:15 UTC after 7 h 21 min. GitHub has since published a post-incident report.
GitHub says
GitHub's latest update, , in short excerpts.
On August 17, 2026, from 13:28–21:15 UTC (7h 47m), GitHub.com experienced elevated errors and latency across Issues, Pull Requests, APIs, Actions, and Copilot.
Timeline
Times in UTC, GitHub's own where it gives them.
17 Aug
GitHubFirst public postFrom GitHub's own incident history, before our archive started.
+7 h 22 min
GitHubResolved
What GitHub changed
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First version we captured ·
As first seen: postmortem · 1 service
- Status
- postmortem
- Services
- GitHub Enterprise Cloud Australia
Seen by us · GitHub's timestamp · GitHub's page
Affected services
Official updates
Posted by GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status, newest first. The newest are quoted in their first sentence; the full text of each is on GitHub's page.
Post-incident report ·
On August 17, 2026, from 13:28–21:15 UTC (7h 47m), GitHub.com experienced elevated errors and latency across Issues, Pull Requests, APIs, Actions, and Copilot.
Resolved ·
This incident has been resolved.
Investigating ·
We are continuing to apply mitigations to address sporadic Copilot authentication failures in some applications.
Investigating ·
We are continuing to investigate sporadic failures affecting Copilot authentication in some applications.
Investigating ·
We are continuing to investigate sporadic authentication failures.
Investigating ·
API Requests is operating normally.
Investigating ·
API Requests is experiencing degraded performance.
Investigating ·
We identified the problematic component and have taken corrective actions, but we are seeing residual impact in the form of sporadic authentication failures.
Investigating ·
Issues is operating normally.
Investigating ·
Issues is experiencing degraded performance.
Investigating ·
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated.
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