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GitHub incident

Incident with Webhooks

Resolved after 50 min.

Started
Ended
Worst state
Degraded
On GitHub’s status page
Source
Components
Git Operations, Issues, Packages, Pull Requests, Webhooks

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Timeline

  1. GitHub status page · Reported Incident with Webhooks
  2. GitHub status page · Investigating We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Webhooks
  3. GitHub status page · Investigating Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
  4. GitHub status page · Investigating Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
  5. GitHub status page · Investigating Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
  6. GitHub status page · Investigating Packages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
  7. GitHub status page · Investigating We are currently investigating a brief degradation of service for Git operations (specifically pushes), issues, pull requests, package registry, and webhooks between 14:32 and 14:46 UTC. We have identified the source of the degradation and are investigating mitigation strategies to prevent recurrence.
  8. GitHub status page · Monitoring The degradation affecting Git Operations, Issues, Packages, Pull Requests and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
  9. GitHub status page · Monitoring We have temporarily disabled a background job which caused the impact. At this time the impact is fully mitigated.
  10. GitHub status page · Resolved Between 14:24 and 14:53 UTC on 13 August 2026, a routine background job to delete an organization overwhelmed a key shared database, causing multiple GitHub services to briefly return elevated errors and slower responses. Most affected was the webhook management API, with smaller impact to Git operations, pull requests, issues, packages, sign-in, and Copilot. Impact cleared on its own at about 14:53 UTC once the job finished; we resolved the incident at 15:36 UTC. Affected users may have experienced a brief increase in errors and slower responses, primarily when creating, listing, or…

Cite this incident

Site Qwality, “Incident with Webhooks,” Aug 13, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-github-down/incidents/github-202608131445/

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