# GitHub: Incident with high errors on Git Operations

> GitHub status incident “Incident with high errors on Git Operations” on 2026-05-11: impact minor (vendor’s label), 8 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/81b05nqkhylj
Last updated: 2026-05-11T14:33:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-05-11 14:25 UTC · Resolved: 2026-05-11 14:33 UTC · Duration: 8 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/81b05nqkhylj](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/81b05nqkhylj)
- [Company: GitHub](https://rewindex.com/company/github.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2026-05-11 14:33 UTC: On May 11th, 2026, between 14:00 UTC and 14:33 UTC, HTTP-based Git read operations were degraded. On average, the error rate was 2.8% and peaked at 7.5% of requests to the service. This was due to resource exhaustion in a networking gateway between GitHub.com’s frontend service for Git operations and a dependency service that performs authentication and authorization. Following the initial spike, the frontend service became stuck in a degraded state in one of our data centers, increasing time to mitigation. We mitigated the incident by scaling the networking gateway and re-deploying the frontend service. To reduce our time to detection and mitigation in the future, we are adding auto-scaling to the networking gateway, and resolving a bug which caused the frontend service to remain degraded.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub, started 2026-05-11 14:25 UTC, resolved after 8 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/81b05nqkhylj
- Citation: GitHub, “Incident with high errors on Git Operations” (2026-05-11 14:25 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/81b05nqkhylj (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub: Incident with high errors on Git Operations (2026-05-11)](https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/81b05nqkhylj)`


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