GitHub: Incident with Issues
Timeline of updates
- resolved
Between March 17, 2025, 18:05 UTC and March 18, 2025, 09:50 UTC, GitHub.com experienced intermittent failures in web and API requests. These issues affected a small percentage of users (mostly related to pull requests and issues), with a peak error rate of 0.165% across all requests. We identified a framework upgrade that caused kernel panics in our Kubernetes infrastructure as the root cause. We mitigated the incident by downgrading until we were able to disable a problematic feature. In response, we have investigated why the upgrade caused the unexpected issue, have taken steps to temporarily prevent it, and are working on longer term patch plans while improving our observability to ensure we can quickly react to similar classes of problems in the future.
From GitHub’s published incident history: for incidents before Rewindex began polling this status page, only the final update text is available.
Archive proof
Rewindex commits each version of an incident it captures to a daily checkpoint, chains it to the day before, and has the checkpoint timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert.
How the archive is checked, and what it cannot prove.
This incident predates live tracking (October 17, 2026). It came from the vendor’s own published history, which is not covered by checkpoints.
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on www.githubstatus.com (opens in new tab).
Cite this
Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub, started 2025-03-17 18:39 UTC, resolved after 4.4 h, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Incident with Issues
- Vendor
- GitHub
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/y8x4xw6j3q84
GitHub profileRecent GitHub incidentsAll outages on March 17, 2025GitHub in March 2025MarkdownJSON