GitHub availability report: February 2026

In February, GitHub experienced six significant incidents causing degraded performance and outages across various services, impacting user workflows and confidence in the platform. The incidents were primarily due to technical issues such as cluster failovers, telemetry loss, configuration changes, and network misconfigurations that led to failures in services like Dependabot, GitHub Actions, Codespaces, and Git operations. GitHub has taken steps to mitigate these issues, including improving monitoring systems, updating alert thresholds, and optimizing caching mechanisms to prevent future occurrences. Efforts are underway to enhance resilience, improve incident response times, and ensure safe rollouts of system changes to minimize the impact on users.

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