# GitHub: Increased Latency and Failures for SSH Git Operations

> GitHub status incident “Increased Latency and Failures for SSH Git Operations” on 2026-05-05: impact minor (vendor’s label), 1.8 h, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/8kn8t67gdy36
Last updated: 2026-05-05T18:35:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-05-05 16:49 UTC · Resolved: 2026-05-05 18:35 UTC · Duration: 1.8 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8kn8t67gdy36](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8kn8t67gdy36)
- [Company: GitHub](https://rewindex.com/company/github.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2026-05-05 18:35 UTC: Between approximately 14:00 and 16:10 UTC on May 5, 2026, SSH-based Git operations experienced elevated latency and intermittent failures. On average, the error rate was 0.46% and peaked at 0.6% of SSH write requests. HTTP-based Git operations, including web UI and HTTPS clones, were not affected. The impact was caused by reduced SSH capacity at one of our data center sites. During a period of high traffic, the remaining hosts became overloaded, leading to connection exhaustion and some failures for SSH-based operations. Additional capacity was provisioned to expand SSH capacity and resolve the incident. The expanded capacity was fully online by 18:18 UTC. To reduce the likelihood of similar incidents, we will implement faster scaling solutions for SSH infrastructure and improved alerting for host availability and capacity thresholds.

_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 2026-05-05 16:49 UTC, resolved after 1.8 h, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/8kn8t67gdy36
- Citation: GitHub, “Increased Latency and Failures for SSH Git Operations” (2026-05-05 16:49 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/8kn8t67gdy36 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub: Increased Latency and Failures for SSH Git Operations (2026-05-05)](https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/8kn8t67gdy36)`


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