GitHub reports April 2026 service degradations

GitHub's April 2026 availability report details ten incidents causing degraded performance across its services. Notably, a significant outage affected code search for over two hours on April 1st, with full recovery taking much longer due to stale data. This incident stemmed from an aggressive infrastructure upgrade to the messaging system supporting code search. The company is enhancing transparency by providing more detailed incident information on its status page and is implementing both short-term and long-term investments to improve platform reliability and user experience.