GitHub Services Experience Degraded Availability

API Requests, Issues, Pages, Pull Requests and Actions affected as company investigates

By The Downtime · Sep 13, 2026 · 9:30 AM ·Updated 1 month ago

GitHub is investigating reports of degraded availability affecting multiple core services, including API Requests, Issues, Pages, and Pull Requests. Actions is also experiencing degraded performance. The incident is classified as critical and remains under investigation.

GitHub provides cloud-based version control and collaboration tools used by millions of developers and organizations worldwide to build and manage software projects.

The company first reported investigating the issues affecting API Requests, Issues, Pages and Pull Requests, followed by a separate report that Actions was experiencing degraded performance. No timeline for resolution has been provided.

This is a developing story. The Downtime will continue monitoring and updating as GitHub provides further status updates.

🕒 Live updates (6)

resolved Sep 13, 10:44 AM

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.

investigating Sep 13, 10:28 AM

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

investigating Sep 13, 10:26 AM

We have reduced load on this cluster with internal load-shedding and are seeing signs of recovery but continue to monitor

investigating Sep 13, 9:36 AM

We're seeing increased database replication delays on collab which is causing increased error rates in authorization endpoints and follow-on increased error rates across the system - we are investigating

investigating Sep 13, 9:25 AM

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

investigating Sep 13, 9:16 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for API Requests, Issues, Pages and Pull Requests

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