GitHub outage on November 12, 2026: Disruption with Email Delivery
GitHub has reported an incident affecting GitHub since 19:36 UTC on 12 November 2026 (1 hour 16 minutes so far).
Open
Official incident reported by GitHub
- Started
- 19:36
- 12 Nov 2026 UTC
- Status
- Open
- not resolved yet
- Duration
- 1h 16m
- 1 hour 16 minutes so far
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by GitHub
- Updates
- 5
- posted by GitHub
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from GitHub
Disruption with Email Delivery
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Official
Investigating
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
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Official
Investigating
We are seeing disruptions with email delivery for account sign-in and new account sign up. We are investigating.
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Official
Investigating
Users may be unable to sign-in, verify e-mail addresses, reset passwords, or receive e-mail notifications due to degradation with an upstream e-mail provider. We will continue to monitor and provide updates.
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Official
Monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
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Official
Monitoring
We are seeing recovery for sign-in, email address verification, and other forms of e-mail communication previously impacted. We will continue to monitor.
"Official" rows are quoted from GitHub's public status page, www.githubstatus.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test github.com from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live GitHub status shows what our checks see right now.
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