Outage
GitHub availability report: October 2026
The GitHub Blog · By Jakub Oleksy ·
The Brief
- GitHub published its availability report for October 2026 on 2026-11-13.
- GitHub says it added substantial independently scalable Azure capacity in October.
- GitHub says it removed several ways that failures could escalate.
- The report also cites write outages and monitoring gaps as issues.
Why it matters
Write outages and monitoring gaps can block pushes, merges and CI workflows that depend on GitHub, so developers relying on GitHub should be aware of the reported reliability issues.
Who’s affected
- Developers and teams relying on GitHub
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- #azure
- #reliability
We continue to share monthly updates on the work behind GitHub’s availability and reliability. The short version of October: we added substantial independently scalable Azure capacity and removed several ways that failures could escalate. However, write outages, monitoring gaps…
Timeline
GitHub published its availability report for October 2026
The GitHub Blog
GitHub availability report: October 2026