Several services are degraded

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1. 19:57 UTC GitHub status page · Reported Several services are degraded
2. 19:57 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests and Webhooks
3. 20:04 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating Webhooks is operating normally.
4. 20:12 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating Pull Requests is operating normally.
5. 20:22 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating A number of services including issues, pull requests, and webhooks, were briefly degraded, but have now recovered. Enterprise migrations are paused while we validate causes and mitigations.
6. 20:26 UTC GitHub status page · Monitoring The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
7. 20:57 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating All services are functioning normally except for enterprise migrations, which are still paused. They will resume soon.
8. 21:29 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating We are working towards a mitigation that will allow us to resume processing enterprise migrations.
9. 22:40 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating We are deploying a mitigation and plan to resume migrations shortly thereafter
10. 23:40 UTC GitHub status page · Resolved On October 6, 2026, from 19:44 to 19:50 UTC, GitHub experienced a service outage with elevated error rates peaking at 1.30% of all requests, totaling approximately 1.16 million failed requests. This impacted 12 services across GitHub, including Pull Requests, Webhooks, Repos, OAuth, Git over SSH, Codespaces, and Gists. The incident was triggered by GitHub Enterprise Importer (GEI) making multiple, long duration queries which saturated a database connection pool. Recovery was seen at approximately 19:50 UTC once the migration's calls stopped; GEI migrations were reenabled at 23:32 UTC after a…