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GitHub in January 2026: incidents, uptime and changes

25incidents posted
3labelled major or critical
99.54%free of major/critical
94.81%free of any incident
0price changes
0notable page changes

Vendor-reported outage time 3 h 21 min, incident time 38 h 34 min. Derived from the incidents the vendor posted on its own status page, not measured by us. A minute counts as an outage minute when a major or critical incident (as the vendor labelled it) was open; incident minutes include minor ones too. Maintenance and incidents marked "no impact" are left out, overlapping incidents are merged, a resolved incident counts for at most 7 days, and one still open with no resolution counts for at most 24 hours. Last 90 days.

By vendor label: Major 3 · Minor 22

Major and critical incidents 3

IncidentImpactStartedDurationStatusDay
Disruption with some GitHub servicesMajor15 minresolved01-12
GitHub Copilot failuresMajor1.1 hresolved01-13
Incident with Issues and Pull RequestsMajor2.0 hresolved01-15

Other incidents 22

IncidentImpactStartedDurationStatusDay
Disruption with some GitHub servicesMinor1.1 hresolved01-01
Incident with CopilotMinor1.2 hresolved01-06
Incident with ActionsMinor25 minresolved01-06
Some models missing in CopilotMinor2.6 hresolved01-07
Incident with CopilotMinor47 minresolved01-08
Disruption with some GitHub servicesMinor8.7 hresolved01-09
Disruption with some GitHub servicesMinor1.9 hresolved01-13
Copilot's GPT-5.1 model has degraded performanceMinor1.5 hresolved01-14
Claude Opus 4.5 model experiencing degraded performanceMinor1.4 hresolved01-14
[Retroactive] Incident with GitHub Copilot (GPT-5 model)Minor0 minresolved01-14
Incident with WebhooksMinor1.3 hresolved01-14
Actions workflow run and job status updates are experiencing delaysMinor1.0 hresolved01-15
Disruption with some GitHub servicesMinor3.0 hresolved01-16
Incident affecting actions-runner-controllerMinor21 minresolved01-20
Run start delays in ActionsMinor21 minresolved01-20
Copilot Chat - Grok Code Fast 1 OutageMinor1.1 hresolved01-21
Policy pages for Copilot are timing outMinor1.4 hresolved01-21
Disruption with some GitHub servicesMinor1.2 hresolved01-22
Disruption with repo creationMinor25 minresolved01-25
Regression in windows runners for public repositoriesMinor4.4 hresolved01-26
Actions Workflows Run Start DelaysMinor42 minresolved01-28
Degraded Experience - Failing to finalize some CCA JobsMinor23 minresolved01-30

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GitHub posted 25 status incidents in January 2026 (3 major or critical); 0 price changes and 0 notable page changes observed.

Title
GitHub in January 2026
Vendor
GitHub
Date
URL
https://rewindex.com/company/github/2026/01

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