Outage report

GitHub outage on 21 Oct 2026

GitHub was down for 2 min on 21 Oct 2026, from 19:47 UTC to 19:49 UTC. Our checks failed to reach github.com from Stockholm: Timeout after 10 s.

Started
21 Oct 2026, 19:47 UTC
Ended
21 Oct 2026, 19:49 UTC
Duration
2 min
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What happened, minute by minute

  1. Check from Stockholm failed: Timeout after 10 s

  2. Confirmed by a second check from Stockholm

  3. Recovered: confirmed by a second check from Stockholm

Our checks and visitors’ reports around it

Response time

19:17 UTC red: failed checks 20:19 UTC

Visitors’ problem reports

No visitor reported a problem with GitHub around this outage.

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