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GitHub: Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users

  1. Investigating(done)
  2. Trending(skipped)
  3. Workaround available(skipped)
  4. Resolved(current)

Executive summary

GitHub suffered degraded performance and 504 Gateway Timeout errors affecting unauthenticated users, CI jobs, and release downloads due to an influx of anonymous traffic. The incident has been successfully resolved and monitored for stability.

No verified workaround yet

This incident was resolved upstream without a reported workaround.

Official fix
Technical root cause

A spike in anonymous traffic caused performance degradation and 504 Gateway Timeout status codes for unauthenticated requests.

Evidence

3 reports · 1 Status, 2 BlueskyShow
  1. [1]
    Status First report
    Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users(opens official status page in a new tab)

    Investigating: We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. Update: 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. Monitoring: The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. Update: The problem with anonymous traffic receiving 504 status codes has been mitigated. We are…

    by github status

  2. [2]
    Bluesky
    ✅ Resolved: GitHub - Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users(opens the official status page in a new tab)

    ✅ Resolved: GitHub - Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users

    by telescope.littleplanetlabs.comOpens the official status page 0upvotes 0comments92% match

  3. [3]
    Bluesky
    ✅ GitHub Copilot is back to normal(opens the official status page in a new tab)

    ✅ GitHub Copilot is back to normal Problems lasted about 3 h 55 min. Details: https://isaidownnow.com/incidents/2026-11-09-github-copilot-outage

    by isaidownnow.comOpens the official status page 1upvotes 1comments100% match

Timeline

  1. First report on status page

    Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users

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  2. Official statement

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

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  3. Status changed

    Status changed: new → resolved (official status page reports resolution).

  4. Confirmed on Bluesky post

    ✅ Resolved: GitHub - Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users

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  5. Official statement

    ✅ Resolved: GitHub - Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users

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