Disruption with GitHub notifications

Incident update

On April 9, 2026, between 03:22 UTC and 04:49 UTC, GitHub Notifications experienced degraded availability. During this time, approximately 45% of requests to the notifications service returned errors, with a peak error rate of approximately 54%, preventing affected users from successfully viewing or interacting with their notifications service. The issue was identified and resolved, restoring the service to full availability.<br /><br />We are working to improve our metrics to reduce time to detection and mitigation for similar issues in the future.