GitHub Reliability Crisis: 257 Incidents in 12 Months, February 2026 Worst at 37 — May 4 Outage Hits Issues, Webhooks, Codespaces

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GitHub experienced another degradation on May 4 affecting Issues, Webhooks, and Codespaces (mitigated by 16:40 UTC). Broader analysis shows 257 incidents tracked from May 2025 to April 2026, with February 2026 being the worst month at 37 incidents. For teams running CI/CD, webhook-triggered deployments, or agent workflows that depend on GitHub APIs, this represents a growing reliability risk requiring fallback strategies.