GitHub has faced repeated reliability challenges in 2026 that directly affect core Git operations, including a major multi-hour outage on August 17 impacting SSH and HTTPS clones, pushes, and fetches alongside authentication and Actions, plus a brief but severe SSH degradation on August 21 triggered by a load-balancer configuration defect. These events stem from infrastructure scaling limits under surging traffic from AI workloads like Copilot, prompting GitHub to add capacity and improve monitoring after multiple August incidents. Recent October Actions delays and latency spikes have not extended to Git operations, yet the pattern of capacity-related failures keeps trader focus on whether another critical disruption occurs before resolution deadlines. Upcoming factors include further reliability upgrades and any new traffic peaks.