Incident with GraphQL API Requests

lowGitHubAPIJul 27, 2026 03:53Duration: 16m

api

API Issue

Summary

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.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Jul 27, 2026 03:53

[investigating] We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests

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+16m

Jul 27, 2026 04:09

[monitoring] The degradation affecting API Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

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+0m

Jul 27, 2026 04:09

[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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Lessons Learned

⚠GitHub has experienced 127 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 832 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: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.