Current answer
GitHub experienced a critical incident: Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Oct 7, 2026.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Git Operations
Webhooks
Issues
Pull Requests
Actions
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
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.
Oct 7, 2026 at 4:23 PM UTC
Monitoring
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.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM UTC
Monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM UTC
Monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:49 PM UTC
Investigating
The degradation affecting Git Operations and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:49 PM UTC
Investigating
The degradation affecting Issues has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM UTC
Investigating
We are observing partial recovery across all systems. We are continuing to monitor and investigate the root cause of the disruption.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM UTC
Investigating
Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM UTC
Investigating
Actions is operating normally.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM UTC
Investigating
The degradation affecting Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:31 PM UTC
Investigating
Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:27 PM UTC
Investigating
Git Operations is operating normally.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:27 PM UTC
Investigating
Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:25 PM UTC
Investigating
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.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:24 PM UTC
Investigating
Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM UTC
Investigating
Webhooks is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:16 PM UTC
Investigating
Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM UTC
Investigating
Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM UTC
Investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Git Operations and Pull Requests
Oct 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM UTC
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