# GitHub outage on 4 November 2026

> GitHub had a major outage on 4 November from 08:45 to 11:50 UTC, lasting 3 h 5 min and listed as an incident affecting Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues. The status page's own updates describe a shorter incident, increased task-related errors for Copilot Mission Control, which it said came from upstream database throttling and a specific client version, with about 2.5% of task listing and creation failing until it was marked resolved at 10:01 UTC. Bus Times, Musixmatch, Auto Trader UK and PowerSchool also reported problems during the same period.

- Service: [GitHub](https://stackpulse.app/services/github.md)
- Severity: major_outage
- Title on the status page: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
- Started: 2026-11-04 08:45 UTC
- Ended: 2026-11-04 11:50 UTC
- Lasted: 3 h 5 min
- Incident open on the status page: 08:45–10:01 UTC
- The status page's incident: https://stspg.io/hj74883wgn0t
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/github/outages/2026-11-04-0845

## At the same time

- [Bus Times](https://stackpulse.app/services/bus-times.md): issue from 2026-11-04 08:18 UTC
- [Musixmatch](https://stackpulse.app/services/musixmatch.md): issue from 2026-11-04 09:46 UTC
- [Auto Trader UK](https://stackpulse.app/services/auto-trader-uk.md): issue from 2026-11-04 10:38 UTC
- [PowerSchool](https://stackpulse.app/services/powerschool.md): critical from 2026-11-04 11:11 UTC

Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

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