Microsoft says the outage affecting GitHub's API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services has been mitigated, three hours after it first confirmed the outage (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer) | SpinGraph: Temporary headwinds
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Microsoft says the outage affecting GitHub's API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services has been mitigated, three hours after it first confirmed the outage (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
GitHub experienced a broad service disruption impacting API, Actions, and Pull Requests. Microsoft publicly acknowledged the outage and confirmed mitigation after three hours. The incident affected developers relying on GitHub's infrastructure for CI/CD, collaboration, and automation.
Emphasizes speed of mitigation while minimizing root cause, scale of impact, and recurrence risk.
Responsible stewardship: Microsoft as responsive operator managing transient infrastructure stress.
GitHub suffered a brief outage affecting API and Actions; Microsoft confirmed resolution within three hours.
Root cause analysis; Customer impact metrics (e.g., error rates, SLA breaches); Whether AI-powered features (e.g., Copilot integrations) contributed to or exacerbated the failure
Combines official attribution ('Microsoft says') with time-bound resolution language to signal control and responsiveness; makes the event feel smaller and more manageable than it may have been for affected teams, while the absence of root cause or impact metrics creates a tension between the confident tone and the actual technical uncertainty.
Microsoft says the outage affecting GitHub's API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services has been mitigated, three hours after it first confirmed the outage.
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Time between Microsoft's first confirmation and resolution announcement