Increased Latency and Failures for SSH Git Operations
Incident
Report for GitHub
Resolved
Between approximately 14:00 and 16:10 UTC on May 5, 2026, SSH-based Git operations experienced elevated latency and intermittent failures. On average, the error rate was 0.46% and peaked at 0.6% of SSH write requests. HTTP-based Git operations, including web UI and HTTPS clones, were not affected.
The impact was caused by reduced SSH capacity at one of our data center sites. During a period of high traffic, the remaining hosts became overloaded, leading to connection exhaustion and some failures for SSH-based operations.
Additional capacity was provisioned to expand SSH capacity and resolve the incident. The expanded capacity was fully online by 18:18 UTC.
To reduce the likelihood of similar incidents, we will implement faster scaling solutions for SSH infrastructure and improved alerting for host availability and capacity thresholds.
The impact was caused by reduced SSH capacity at one of our data center sites. During a period of high traffic, the remaining hosts became overloaded, leading to connection exhaustion and some failures for SSH-based operations.
Additional capacity was provisioned to expand SSH capacity and resolve the incident. The expanded capacity was fully online by 18:18 UTC.
To reduce the likelihood of similar incidents, we will implement faster scaling solutions for SSH infrastructure and improved alerting for host availability and capacity thresholds.
Update
We've completed our mitigation to prevent further impact. At this time the incident is considered resolved.
Monitoring
The degradation affecting Git Operations has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Update
We're continuing to work on preventing further impact from the earlier issue. No SSH-based impact is expected at this time. We'll post new updates if impact recurs or once our mitigation is in place.
Investigating
Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Monitoring
Between approximately 14:00 and 16:10 UTC, customers using SSH-based Git operations may have experienced elevated latency and failures. HTTP-based operations were not impacted. We've identified a suspected root cause and are working to implement a mitigation to prevent further impact.
Investigating
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
This incident affected: Git Operations.
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