GitHub Investigating Critical Pull Requests Outage

The code collaboration platform is experiencing degraded availability and errors affecting pull request creation.

By The Downtime · Jul 24, 2026 · 7:45 PM ·Updated 4 weeks ago

GitHub is investigating a critical incident affecting its Pull Requests service. Users are experiencing degraded performance and errors when attempting to create pull requests, according to the company's official status page.

GitHub is a widely-used platform for version control and collaborative software development, relied upon by millions of developers and organizations worldwide.

The company began investigating reports of degraded Pull Requests performance and is continuing to assess the scope of the issue. No resolution has been announced as of this report.

This is a developing story. The Downtime will provide updates as GitHub publishes new information.

🕒 Live updates (6)

resolved Jul 24, 8:23 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 Jul 24, 8:02 PM

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

investigating Jul 24, 7:59 PM

We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring for recovery

investigating Jul 24, 7:43 PM

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

investigating Jul 24, 7:40 PM

We are investigating errors creating pull requests

investigating Jul 24, 7:37 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests

📎 Sources

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