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FM-016
The Search Layer That Slowed GitHubA concentrated wave of anonymous scraping traffic saturated the load-balancing tier in front of GitHub Search, causing timeouts across issues, pull requests, repositories, Actions, packages, and Dependabot alerts.
GitHub
2026-04-27
6h 31m
SEV-2
searchscrapingload-balancing