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GitHub incident

Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

Resolved after 7 h 54 min.

Started
Ended
Worst state
Degraded
On GitHub’s status page
Source
Components
Actions, Issues, Pull Requests

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  1. GitHub status page · Reported Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
  2. GitHub status page · Investigating Users may experience issues loading the Actions tab UI, interacting with the Checks API, queueing new Actions runs, creating and updating issues, and requesting PR reviews, including via REST and GraphQL APIs.
  3. GitHub status page · Investigating We have a mitigation in progress and are monitoring for recovery. Users may also experience delayed web notifications as we mitigate.
  4. GitHub status page · Investigating Pull Requests is operating normally.
  5. GitHub status page · Investigating Our initial mitigation was not fully successful, and users may still experience delays and errors with Actions, issues and projects, and notifications are delayed. We're continuing to investigate the root cause and work on additional mitigations.
  6. GitHub status page · Investigating The degradation affecting Issues has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
  7. GitHub status page · Investigating The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
  8. GitHub status page · Investigating We have mitigated the issues with Actions, issues, and projects, and have a mitigation in progress to address the delay with notifications.
  9. GitHub status page · Investigating We have successfully applied a mitigation for notifications, and notifications have resumed but will continue to be delayed as we work through a backlog.
  10. GitHub status page · Investigating Notifications have resumed but will continue to be delayed as we work through a backlog.
  11. GitHub status page · Investigating Web and email notifications continue to be delayed as we work through a backlog of notifications.
  12. GitHub status page · Investigating Web and email notifications will be delayed for 1 more hour as we are close to completing the backlog of notifications.
  13. GitHub status page · Resolved On October 12th 2026 11:51 UTC GitHub experienced elevated 500 responses across several application pages. This caused failures on Issues and Pull Requests as well as Projects and Actions. Customers also experienced delayed notifications in their web inbox and via email. The immediate impact to Issues, Pull Requests, Projects, and Actions was mitigated by 12:41 UTC on October 12th. Notifications deliveries to the web inbox and via email were recovering at 15:27 UTC and fully mitigated by 20:16 UTC. The incident was triggered through a latent condition in our notifications delivery pipeline…

Cite this incident

Site Qwality, “Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues,” Oct 12, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-github-down/incidents/github-202610121221/

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