Recent GitHub incidents in October 2026 have mostly resolved within a few hours, with the longest critical event on October 21 lasting roughly 4.5 hours and affecting pull requests, webhooks, and related services. Subsequent issues on October 22–23, including an 11-hour stretch of degraded performance on issues and search plus shorter Dependabot and Copilot AI model disruptions, remained minor or non-critical and cleared faster. Ongoing infrastructure migrations to Azure and database optimizations have helped contain impact, though shared-database load and upstream model-provider problems continue to surface. With most October critical incidents staying under six hours and no extended outages reported in the final week, trader consensus favors the 3–6 hour bucket as the likely maximum duration.