Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions

Timeline

1. 15:14 UTC GitHub status page · Reported Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions
2. 15:27 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
3. 15:31 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating The degradation affecting Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
4. 15:32 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating Actions is operating normally.
5. 15:35 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
6. 15:41 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating We are observing partial recovery across all systems. We are continuing to monitor and investigate the root cause of the disruption.
7. 15:47 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating The degradation affecting Issues has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
8. 15:49 UTC GitHub status page · Investigating The degradation affecting Git Operations and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
9. 15:49 UTC GitHub status page · Monitoring The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
10. 15:56 UTC GitHub status page · Monitoring The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
11. 15:58 UTC GitHub status page · Monitoring We are seeing full recovery across all systems including Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions. We are continuing to investigate the root cause of the disruption between 15:06 UTC and 15:16 UTC, and will share another update shortly.
12. 16:23 UTC GitHub status page · Monitoring Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions are fully recovered and stable. The root cause has been identified and mitigations are being applied to prevent a reoccurrence.
13. 16:25 UTC GitHub status page · Resolved On October 7, 2026, GitHub had two outages of write operations with the same cause, totaling about 19 minutes. The first ran from 15:06 to 15:16 UTC (about 10 minutes) and the second from 16:52 to 17:01 UTC (about 9 minutes). In both windows, actions that save or change data failed across Git operations, pull requests, issues, GitHub Actions, the API, webhooks, sign-in and authentication, GitHub Apps and OAuth, code scanning, Codespaces, and Copilot. Reading data was largely unaffected. In the first outage, 5.6% of all web and API requests failed, peaking at 8.9%, and more than 12,000…