Incident with Git Operations

Severity: Major
Category: Change Process
Service: GitHub

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Overview

On January 13, 2025, between 23:35 UTC and 00:24 UTC all Git operations were unavailable due to a configuration change causing our internal load balancer to drop requests between services that Git relies upon. Actions and Pages are also affected.

Impact

all Git operations were unavailable

Trigger

configuration change

Detection

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Git Operations

Resolution

We mitigated the incident by rolling back the configuration change

Root Cause

configuration change causing our internal load balancer to drop requests between services that Git relies upon