Incident with Pages

lowGitHubPagesJul 2, 2026 16:54Duration: 1h 31m

computestorageapiauthenticationdeploymentcapacity

Capacity IssueDeployment FailureAuthentication IssueStorage FailureAPI Issue

Summary

On July 2nd, 2026, between approximately 15:00 and 18:30 UTC, the GitHub Pages service experienced degraded deployment performance due to a surge in demand that exceeded available processing capacity. During this period, users publishing to GitHub Pages may have seen their deployments queued or taking substantially longer than usual to go live. No other GitHub services were impacted. We mitigated the incident by scaling up Pages deployment workers and provisioning additional storage c

Impact

minor

Timeline

Jul 2, 2026 16:54

[investigating] We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pages

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+3m

Jul 2, 2026 16:56

[investigating] We are investigating reports of slow and failing Pages deployments. Access to Pages is unaffected.

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+1h

Jul 2, 2026 17:57

[investigating] Pages deployment latency is recovering. The team continues working toward full mitigation and a return to nominal state.

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+28m

Jul 2, 2026 18:25

[resolved] This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

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+0m

Jul 2, 2026 18:25

[resolved] On July 2nd, 2026, between approximately 15:00 and 18:30 UTC, the GitHub Pages service experienced degraded deployment performance due to a surge in demand that exceeded available processing capacity. During this period, users publishing to GitHub Pages may have seen their deployments queued or taking substantially longer than usual to go live. No other GitHub services were impacted. We mitigated the incident by scaling up Pages deployment workers and provisioning additional storage capacity to clear the backlog. GitHub is reviewing capacity planning and autoscaling measures to reduce the likelihood of similar delays in the future.

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Lessons Learned

⚠GitHub has experienced 114 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to compute, storage, api, authentication, deployment, capacity have occurred 934 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Capacity Issue, Deployment Failure, Authentication Issue, Storage Failure, API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.