GitHub Now Sees 2.9 Billion Commits a Month -- and It Can't Keep Up
GitHub said a new traffic peak overwhelmed a critical infrastructure component, and it is tightening retry limits and timeouts to reduce cascading load.
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GitHub now sees 2.9 billion commits a month -- and it can't keep up
Per month, GitHub now sees 2.9 billion commits, 130 million merged pull requests, and 24 million new repos. Back in April, GitHub already had a hard time handling ‘only’ 1.4 billion commits. To a large degree, that’s thanks to how popular coding agents have become and how quickly software development is changing. But it’s also no secret that GitHub, despite its efforts to move to a more modern architecture, simply hasn’t been able to scale fast …
GitHub CTO responds to outage: "I'm upset, but I have to say something: Monthly commits surged from 50 million to 2.9 billion."
GitHub cites a malfunction of autoscaling and a storm of attempts to reconnect in VS Code as responsible for its recent 8 a.m. breakdown. This was due to its centralized SaaS structure. On August 17, 2026, GitHub suffered a [new] global breakdown for almost 8 hours. The incident started at approximately 15:40 in metropolitan France before being declared resolved at 11:15 p.m. It was not simply an unavailability of the web interface. The failure …
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