Resolved -
On November 3, 2025, between 14:10 UTC and 19:20 UTC, GitHub Packages experienced degraded performance, resulting in failures for 0.5% of Nuget package download requests. The incident resulted from an unexpected change in usage patterns affecting rate limiting infrastructure in the Packages service.
We mitigated the issue by scaling up services and refining our rate limiting implementation to ensure more consistent and reliable service for all users. To prevent similar problems, we are enhancing our resilience to shifts in usage patterns, improving capacity planning, and implementing better monitoring to accelerate detection and mitigation in the future.
Nov 3, 19:20 UTC
Update -
We have applied the mitigation and are starting to see signs of recovery. We will continue to monitor the health of the system.
Nov 3, 17:27 UTC
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We are continuing to work on mitigation.
Nov 3, 17:10 UTC
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Progress on mitigation continues but no recovery seen yet to error rates. We will continue to provide updates as we have them.
Nov 3, 15:58 UTC
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We are continuing to see high error rates for package downloads. Our team is working on ways to mitigate this urgently
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Nov 3, 15:33 UTC
Update -
Our investigations are continuing and we are working to mitigate impact. Thank you for your patience as we work on this.
Nov 3, 15:18 UTC
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We are seeing increased failure rates of up to 15% for GitHub Packages downloads with users experiencing 5xx errors.
We are investigating and working towards mitigation. We will continue to provide updates as they are available.
Nov 3, 14:35 UTC
Investigating -
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Packages
Nov 3, 14:33 UTC