GitHub Reports Increased Timeouts Due to Surge in Anonymous Users

GitHub is reporting an active service incident on its official status page.

Nov 9, 2026
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GitHub Reports Increased Timeouts Due to Surge in Anonymous Users

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Updated 1:30 a.m. Eastern on November 9, 2026

GitHub says some users who are not logged in may see site errors, while anonymous calls may cause CI jobs and release downloads to fail. The incident remains under investigation as GitHub debugs a spike in anonymous traffic.

What is affected

CI jobs and release downloads may fail with a 504 Gateway Timeout status if they make anonymous calls.

Official update timeline

, marked Investigating

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

, marked Investigating

We are debugging a spike in anonymous traffic. Some users who are not logged in may see errors on the site. CI jobs and release downloads may fail with a 504 Gateway Timeout status if they make anonymous calls.

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