GitHub outage on May 20, 2026
GitHub users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Developer Tools service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 1h 27m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.
GitHub is reporting a minor incident with Actions and is currently monitoring the situation. Downrightnow's signals remain quiet with no user reports or unusual chatter, suggesting the issue is component-specific rather than a broad service outage. GitHub's web address is resolving normally and most other features appear unaffected.
Cached · Wed, May 20, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC · scope: this incident
Status changed to Possible Issues
The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 40.00.
Incident detected
Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for GitHub.
Status changed to Operational
The stored readout moved to Operational with confidence 75.00.
Marked resolved
The incident was closed after 1h 27m of observed impact.
Peak confidence reached
Confidence peaked at 80.00 while the service was marked Operational.
- Official status
Www.Githubstatus.Com reported an open incident, Incident with Actions (Actions) · impact: minor
06:12 PM UTC
Confidence scoring
21.00The incident reached 21.00 peak confidence across 23 stored status snapshots.
User reports
0 / 15mNo elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.
Status samples
13 affected13 snapshots in the window showed degraded, recovering, or major-outage state before recovery.
Recovery signal
ResolvedRecovery was recorded at Wed, May 20, 2026, 08:03 PM UTC.