DevOps incidents rise 21% as disruption time nearly doubles

By AI, Created 10:08 AM UTC, May 20, 2026, /AGP/ – GitProtect.io says DevOps platforms logged 607 incidents in 2025, up 21% from the year before, while total impacted time climbed to 9,255 hours and 26 minutes. The report points to growing operational risk for teams that rely on GitHub, GitLab, Jira and Bitbucket.

Why it matters: - DevOps outages are becoming more frequent and more expensive in lost engineering time. - GitProtect.io estimates the 2025 disruption total translated into more than $740,000 in lost productivity at an $80 hourly developer rate. - The report argues that even major cloud platforms need independent backup and recovery planning to preserve business continuity.

What happened: - GitProtect.io analyzed security breaches, outages and performance degradation across major DevOps platforms for its DevOps Threats Unwrapped Report 2026. - The report counted 607 incidents in 2025, up from 502 in 2024. - Total disruption time reached 9,255 hours and 26 minutes in 2025, nearly double the just-over-4,755 hours recorded in 2024. - The sharpest quarterly spike came in Q2 2025, which logged 47 incidents. - June was the most volatile month in 2025, with 21 incidents.

The details: - Critical or major incidents totaled 156 in 2025 and lasted 1,769 hours and 43 minutes. - Those severe incidents were up 69% year over year. - Degraded performance was the most common category, with 374 incidents, or 62% of the total. - Degraded performance caused 3,059 hours of downtime, or 34% of total disruption time. - Maintenance made up only 4% of incidents but accounted for 30% of total duration. - Critical and major incidents represented 26% of all incidents and consumed 22% of the total time. - No-impact incidents accounted for 8% of incidents and 16% of total duration. - GitLab recorded the most critical and major incidents among the platforms tracked, with 62 incidents totaling more than 754 hours of impact. - Jira followed with 44 critical and major incidents and nearly 728 hours of downtime. - GitHub logged 35 critical and major incidents and 172 hours of impact. - Bitbucket recorded 15 critical and major incidents totaling 113 hours and 59 minutes.

Between the lines: - The data suggests the biggest problem is not just incident count, but how long disruptions last. - Maintenance and severe outages consumed a disproportionate share of total downtime compared with their share of incident volume. - The platform-by-platform breakdown shows no major tool is immune, even if the scale and duration of disruptions differ. - GitProtect.io’s conclusion is a broader warning about cloud dependence: native platform resilience does not eliminate outage risk.

What’s next: - GitProtect.io says organizations should adopt third-party backup, offline access paths and a clear incident response plan. - The company says teams should prepare for continued cloud disruption as DevOps environments grow more complex. - The full report is available on the report’s website.

The bottom line: - DevOps outages in 2025 were not only more common, but far more disruptive, and the report frames backup and recovery as a core operational requirement rather than a nice-to-have.