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Promise vs reality
Downtime used against the allowance
3 d of major incidents, 8.3x the allowance8.8 h allowed in 365 days
24 major and 54 minor incidents. 6.5 d degraded (not counted).
Major incident minutes per month
Allowed per month: 44 min
- Promised
- 99.9%
- Observed, 365d
- 99.172%
- Major incident time
- 3 d
- Credit on first breach
- 5%
Commitments and credits
- Enterprise CloudService Features: git Operations, Issues, Pages, Pull Requests, Webhooks, and API requests to these99.9%
Monthly uptime below, credit of the bill
- Below 99.9%5%
- Below 99.5%10%
- Below 99%25%
Terms
- Measured
- Per calendar quarter; Downtime is a minute where a Service Feature's error rate exceeds 5% or the Service was unavailable per GitHub internal and external monitoring
- Credit cap
- Limited to a maximum of ninety (90) days of paid service per calendar quarter
- Claim window
- Written request within thirty (30) days of the end of the calendar quarter (Applicable Period)
- How to claim
- Written request to GitHub Support (direct purchase) or via a Microsoft support ticket (purchased through Microsoft)
Not covered
- Factors outside GitHub's reasonable control
- Previews, or purchases made with a subscription credit
- Non-GitHub services, hardware or software
- Throttling of suspected abusive behavior or hacked accounts
- Rate limits or latency without actual unavailability
- Scheduled Downtime (5 days' notice)
GitHub commits to maintain at least 99.9% Uptime for the applicable GitHub service.
Credits: 99.5% <= Uptime < 99.9% = 5%; 99.0% <= Uptime < 99.5% = 10%; Uptime < 99.0% = 25% of Applicable Service Fees. SLA applies to Enterprise Cloud customers under their governing agreement; Free/Pro/Team plans have no published SLA.
Evidence: incidents, last 365 days
- Sep 23, 2026Incident across several servicesAPI RequestsMinor
- Sep 20, 2026Incident with Pull RequestsPull RequestsMinor
- Sep 13, 2026Incident with several GitHub ServicesAPI Requests, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, PagesOutage
- Sep 1, 2026Delays in commit processingPull RequestsMinor
- Aug 26, 2026Incident with Actions and Pull RequestsPull Requests, ActionsMinor
- Aug 26, 2026Incident with ActionsActions, PagesOutage
- Aug 17, 2026Incident with GitHub.comGit Operations, Webhooks, API Requests, Issues, Pull Requests, ActionsOutage
- Aug 13, 2026Incident with WebhooksGit Operations, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests, PackagesMinor
- Aug 12, 2026Incident with Pull Requests and IssuesIssues, Pull RequestsMinor
- Aug 11, 2026Incident with GraphQL API RequestsAPI RequestsMinor
- Aug 6, 2026Incident with ActionsActions, PagesOutage
- Aug 6, 2026Incident with Pages - Deployment LagPagesMinor
- Jul 27, 2026Incident with GraphQL API RequestsAPI RequestsMinor
- Jul 24, 2026Incident with Pull RequestsPull RequestsOutage
- Jul 24, 2026Disruption with some GitHub servicesAPI Requests, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, Pages, CopilotDegraded
- Jul 23, 2026Latency issues across a number of servicesWebhooks, Issues, Pull Requests, ActionsDegraded
- Jul 19, 2026Incident with GitHub ActionsAPI Requests, Issues, Actions, PagesOutage
- Jul 16, 2026Degraded REST API AvailabilityAPI RequestsDegraded
- Jul 14, 2026Incident with WebhooksWebhooksMinor
- Jul 13, 2026Actions runs are experiencing failures to startActions, PagesDegraded
- Jul 9, 2026Delays starting Actions runsActions, PagesOutage
- Jul 2, 2026Incident with PagesPagesMinor
- Jun 25, 2026Degradation with Webhooks, Pull Requests and ActionsWebhooks, Issues, Pull Requests, ActionsDegraded
- Jun 15, 2026Increased latency with webhooksWebhooksMinor
- Jun 11, 2026Incident with WebhooksWebhooksMinor
SLA changes
- Jun1GitHub Enterprise CloudCredit schedule changed. The June 2021 version (Wayback snapshot 2022-02-03, PDF) gave 10% of fees when quarterly Uptime was <= 99.9% but > 99.0%, and 25% below 99.0%. The current 'Version: June 2026' page gives 5% for 99.5-99.9%, 10% for 99.0-99.5%, 25% below 99.0%, so small misses now earn half the prior credit. The 99.9% quarterly commitment is unchanged. A 2025-12-31 snapshot still linked the 20210630 PDF, so the change landed in the first half of 2026; exact day not published (date set to the version month).Source
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Confluence (Cloud)Atlassian99.95% / n/a
Jira (Cloud)Atlassian99.95% / 99.403%
Jira Product Discovery (Cloud)Atlassian99.95% / n/a
Jira Service Management (Cloud)Atlassian99.95% / n/a
Container RegistryDigitalOcean99.95% / 100%
Bitbucket Cloud (Cloud)Atlassian99.9% / n/a
Compass (Cloud)Atlassian99.9% / n/a
GitHub ActionsGitHub99.9% / 99.117%
GitHub Enterprise CloudGitHub99.9% / 99.172%
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