Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users

investigating

We are continuing to observe high rates of 504 errors for anonymous requests. We are continuing to work on mitigation. Logged-in users and authenticated requests are unaffected.

11/9/2026, 8:16:25 AM

investigating

We have observed a repeated increase in 504 errors for anonymous and unauthenticated traffic, including users who are not logged in and release downloads. We are continuing to investigate and apply mitigations.

11/9/2026, 7:43:15 AM

monitoring

The problem with anonymous traffic receiving 504 status codes has been mitigated. We are continuing to observe for an abundance of caution.

11/9/2026, 7:03:38 AM

monitoring

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

11/9/2026, 6:51:26 AM

investigating

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.

11/9/2026, 6:30:44 AM

investigating

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

11/9/2026, 5:59:07 AM