Infrastructure

GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain

Agentic development workflows are overwhelming GitHub's infrastructure—uptime collapsed below 85% in April 2026, triggering a public mea culpa after Merge Queue bugs and Elasticsearch overloads.

Thursday, April 30, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline

GitHub has published a public apology for accelerating reliability issues, with uptime falling below 85% in April 2026. Recent incidents include an April 23 Merge Queue bug causing incorrect commits and an April 27 Elasticsearch overload (suspected botnet). The company attributes the surge to rapidly accelerating agentic development workflows since December 2025.

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