GitHub Experiences Critical Outage Affecting Git Operations, Actions, Issues and Pull Requests

GitHub services including Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests experienced degraded performance for approximately nine minutes before recovery.

By The Downtime · Oct 7, 2026 · 5:30 PM ·Updated 1 week ago

GitHub reported a critical incident affecting Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests. The service is currently in monitoring status following mitigation of the degradation.

GitHub is a widely-used code repository and collaboration platform where millions of developers host and manage software projects.

According to the official timeline, GitHub began investigating reports of degraded performance across the affected services. Between 16:52 UTC and 17:01 UTC on Tuesday, the company observed widespread impact across multiple GitHub services. All systems recovered following the incident. GitHub noted this was a reoccurrence of an earlier outage the same day and indicated durable mitigation efforts are underway.

The platform is currently being monitored to ensure continued stability. GitHub has pledged to provide additional updates.

🕒 Live updates (5)

resolved Oct 7, 6:04 PM

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

monitoring Oct 7, 6:00 PM

All systems have recovered. We have applied mitigations and do not anticipate another recurrence.

monitoring Oct 7, 5:27 PM

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigating Oct 7, 5:25 PM

We observed widespread impact across GitHub services from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, and are investigating the root cause. All systems have recovered. This incident is a reoccurrence of the incident from earlier in the day https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7. Durable mitigation is in progress. We will provide another update shortly.

investigating Oct 7, 5:17 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests

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