# GitHub Availability Report: October 2022

DevFeed: [GitHub Availability Report: October 2022](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/github-availability-report-october-2022-68175.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-availability-report-october-2022/>)

Author: Jakub Oleksy

Published: 2022-11-02T16:00:33Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [GitHub Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/github-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [Post Mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/post-mortem.md>), [Load Balancing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/load-balancing.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [codespaces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/codespaces.md>), [company-news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/company-news.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [delivery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/delivery.md>), [dependency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependency.md>), [effect](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/effect.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [github-availability-report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github-availability-report.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [news-insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news-insights.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>)

## AI overview

GitHub's October 2022 availability report describes four incidents affecting GitHub services, plus a September Codespaces incident. The incidents involved database validation errors, a configuration schema conflict, webhook backlog from automated repository activity, and missed secret rotation steps. GitHub reports follow-up work including improved testing and monitoring, safer regional rollouts, worker changes, and automation of secret rotation.

## Source excerpt

In October, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in September.