# GitHub: Increase in 429s for Git Operations

> GitHub status incident “Increase in 429s for Git Operations” on 2025-07-29: impact minor (vendor’s label), 1.4 h, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/spbr5ff8hyt2
Last updated: 2025-07-29T12:05:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2025-07-29 10:41 UTC · Resolved: 2025-07-29 12:05 UTC · Duration: 1.4 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/spbr5ff8hyt2](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/spbr5ff8hyt2)
- [Company: GitHub](https://rewindex.com/company/github.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2025-07-29 12:05 UTC: Public Summary Draft Between July 28, 2025 16:31 UTC to July 29, 2025 12:05 UTC users saw degraded Git Operations for raw file downloads. On average, the error rate was .005%, with a peak error rate of 3.89%. This was due to a sustained increase in unauthenticated repository traffic. We mitigated the incident by applying regional rate limiting, rolling back a service that was unable to scale with the additional traffic, and addressed a bug that impacted the caching of raw requests. Additionally, we horizontally scaled several dependencies of the service to appropriately handle the increase in traffic. We are working on improving our time to detection and have implemented controls to prevent similar incidents in future.

_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 2025-07-29 10:41 UTC, resolved after 1.4 h, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/spbr5ff8hyt2
- Citation: GitHub, “Increase in 429s for Git Operations” (2025-07-29 10:41 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/spbr5ff8hyt2 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub: Increase in 429s for Git Operations (2025-07-29)](https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/spbr5ff8hyt2)`


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