GitProtect Report: DevOps Incidents Rise by 21%, While Impact Hours Double to 9,255

WARSAW, Poland - April 28, 2026 - PRLog -- GitProtect.io, (http://gitprotect.io) the world leader in DevOps backup and disaster recovery, tracked and analyzed outages and performance degradation on top development platforms, highlighting the scale of incidents affecting millions of users worldwide.

DevOps Threats Unwrapped Report 2026 reveals that in 2025 alone, 607 incidents were recorded, totaling 9,255 hours and 26 minutes of impacted performance. To compare, in 2024, these platforms recorded 502 incidents, totaling just over 4,755 hours of disruption – meaning downtime nearly doubled in 2025.

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DevOps platform outage duration doubled in 2025
While the total number of incidents rose by 21% (607 vs. 502), the real story lies in their impact. Total downtime surged by nearly 95%, jumping from 4,755 to 9,255 hours – meaning disruptions didn't just become more frequent, but far more severe and harder to resolve, with incident duration nearly doubling.

Looking deeper, 156 incidents were classified as critical or major, lasting 1,769 hours and 43 minutes. That's a 69% year-over-year increase in the most severe incidents – a clear signal that the risk landscape is intensifying.

Degraded performance drives 62% of DevOps platform outages

• Degraded performance (the most frequent): This remains the most common issue, accounting for 62% of all recorded incidents (374 cases). Despite their high frequency, these events represented only 34% of the total downtime (3,059 hours).
• Maintenance (the most time-consuming): Although maintenance activities represented 4% of incidents, they were responsible for 30% of the total duration.
• Critical and major incidents: These high-severity events, which result in partial or total service unavailability, accounted for 26% of all incidents and consumed 22% of total time.
• No-impact incidents: Minor issues accounted for 8% of incidents and 16% of the total duration.

Platform-specific breakdown
In 2025, GitLab recorded the highest cumulative number of critical and major incidents (62), totaling over 754 hours of impact. Jira followed closely with 44 incidents resulting in nearly 728 hours of downtime.

GitHub maintained a relatively low downtime-to-scale ratio, with 172 hours of impact across 35 incidents. Meanwhile, Bitbucket experienced 15 critical and major incidents totaling 113 hours and 59 minutes.

GitHub's most disruptive month was December, with five critical and major incidents. For GitLab, July stood out as the most severe month, with 11 incidents totaling over 252 hours of disruption. Bitbucket's most disruptive month was May, with five incidents resulting in over 84 hours of total impact. In Jira, June recorded the highest number of incidents (9), totaling nearly 48 hours of disruption.