# CircleCI: GitHub service degradation may impact customers using GitHub

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-07-24 16:35 UTC · Resolved: 2026-07-24 17:41 UTC · Duration: 1.1 h
- Updates: 2 · Affected components: Pipelines & Workflows
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/8pvsx88khry9](https://stspg.io/8pvsx88khry9)
- [Company: CircleCI](https://rewindex.com/company/circleci.md)

## Part of an outage event

- [GitHub outage, Jul 24, 2026: 9 vendors, 12 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2026-07-24-github)
- This incident blames GitHub as the cause. (hop 1, posted +19 min vs GitHub’s own post)
- Evidence: “…GitHub service degradation may impact customers using GitHub The issue impacting customers who use GitHub as their VCS while GitHub was undergoing a service degradation (https://www.githubstatus.com/i…”

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["GitHub<br/>posted 16:17 UTC"]:::root
  h1["Within an hour<br/>2 vendors, 2 blamed GitHub<br/>Bolt.new, CircleCI"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed GitHub<br/>Bolt.new"]:::blames
  root --> h4
  me["CircleCI (this incident)<br/>posted +19 min"]:::me
  h1 --- me
```

_Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider; a link means one incident named another vendor, not a confirmed cause._

## Timeline of updates

- **identified** 2026-07-24 16:35 UTC: GitHub is currently experiencing a service degradation (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/yjysg0xrl67m). Customers who use GitHub as their VCS may experience impact to their CircleCI platform experience as a result, impacting checkout and workflows.   We will provide another update as we have more information to share.  Thank you for your patience.
- **resolved** 2026-07-24 17:41 UTC: The issue impacting customers who use GitHub as their VCS while GitHub was undergoing a service degradation (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/yjysg0xrl67m) has now been resolved.  GitHub has resolved the underlying issue and the affected functionality has returned to normal.  We thank you for your patience.


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