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GitHub Service Outage on March 3, 2026: Multiple Services Impacted

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GitHub experienced a major service outage on March 3, 2026, lasting from 18:46 UTC to 20:09 UTC, affecting multiple services including GitHub.com, GitHub API, GitHub Actions, Git operations, and GitHub Copilot. The incident caused significant request failures, with GitHub.com reaching approximately 40% failure rate and GitHub API requests failing at about 43%. Git operations over HTTP had a 6% error rate, while SSH operations remained unaffected. GitHub Copilot also experienced request failures during this period.

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On March 3, 2026, between 18:46 UTC and 20:09 UTC, GitHub experienced a period of degraded availability impacting GitHub.com, the GitHub API, GitHub Actions, Git operations, GitHub Copilot, and other dependent services.

At the peak of the incident, GitHub.com request failures reached approximately 40%.

During the same period, approximately 43% of GitHub API requests failed.

Git operations over HTTP had an error rate of approximately 6%, while SSH was not impacted.

GitHub Copilot requests had an error rat

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