Incident with Pull Requests
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Investigating
Creation of new Pull Request threads (including line and file comments) continues to be affected although we are seeing partial recovery.<br /><br />A mitigation is being applied to continue to accelerate recovery with complete recovery expected by 8:00pm UTC.<br /><br />Top-level comments on pull requests still function and should remain usable during recovery. Opening and merging pull requests, actions, and other pull request operations remain functional.
May 6, 2026 at 5:52 PM UTC
Investigating
Creation of new Pull Request threads (including line and file comments) continues to be affected. <br /><br />Top-level comments on pull requests still function and should remain usable during recovery. Opening and merging pull requests, actions, and other pull request operations remain functional. <br /><br />A mitigation is being applied. Recovery is expected to be gradual, with complete recovery expected by 8:00pm UTC.
May 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM UTC
Investigating
Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
May 6, 2026 at 4:07 PM UTC
Investigating
Creation of new Pull Request threads (including line and file comments) continues to be affected. We have identified the cause of the issue and have started taking steps to mitigate this issue.
May 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM UTC
Investigating
We are investigating failures for new thread creation on Pull Requests. Responses to existing pull request threads are unaffected.
May 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM UTC
Investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests
May 6, 2026 at 3:25 PM UTC
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