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

GitHub services including Git Operations, Pull Requests, Actions, Webhooks, and Issues experienced degraded performance and availability.

By The Downtime ยท Oct 7, 2026 ยท 3:34 PM ยทUpdated 1 week ago

GitHub is investigating reports of degraded availability affecting multiple core services, including Git Operations, Pull Requests, Actions, Webhooks, and Issues. The incident is classified as critical and remains under investigation.

GitHub is a web-based platform used by millions of developers worldwide to host, manage, and collaborate on software code repositories. The service is fundamental to modern software development workflows.

GitHub observed widespread impact across services between 15:06 UTC and 15:16 UTC. The company reported that systems began recovering during the investigation window. Git Operations returned to normal operation during the incident window, though Webhooks, Pull Requests, and other services continued experiencing degraded performance as of the latest update.

This is a developing story. The Downtime will provide updates as GitHub releases additional information.

๐Ÿ•’ Live updates (20)

resolved Oct 7, 4:25 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, 4:23 PM

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.

monitoring Oct 7, 3:58 PM

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.

monitoring Oct 7, 3:56 PM

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

monitoring Oct 7, 3:49 PM

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

investigating Oct 7, 3:49 PM

The degradation affecting Git Operations and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigating Oct 7, 3:47 PM

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

investigating Oct 7, 3:41 PM

We are observing partial recovery across all systems. We are continuing to monitor and investigate the root cause of the disruption.

investigating Oct 7, 3:35 PM

Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Oct 7, 3:32 PM

Actions is operating normally.

investigating Oct 7, 3:31 PM

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

investigating Oct 7, 3:27 PM

Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Oct 7, 3:27 PM

Git Operations is operating normally.

investigating Oct 7, 3:25 PM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Oct 7, 3:24 PM

We observed widespread impact across GitHub services between 15:06 UTC and 15:16 UTC, and are investigating the root cause. We are seeing all systems recover, and will provide another update shortly.

investigating Oct 7, 3:21 PM

Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Oct 7, 3:16 PM

Webhooks is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Oct 7, 3:15 PM

Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Oct 7, 3:14 PM

Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

investigating Oct 7, 3:14 PM

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

๐Ÿ“Ž Sources

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