Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests
View the provider incident record →Current answer
GitHub experienced a critical incident: Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Oct 7, 2026.
Looking for an update now? Check the current status, or follow GitHub for future changes.
Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Git Operations
Issues
Pull Requests
Actions
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Oct 7, 2026 at 5:27 PM UTC
Investigating
We observed widespread impact across GitHub services from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, and are investigating the root cause. All systems have recovered. This incident is a reoccurrence of the incident from earlier in the day https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7. Durable mitigation is in progress. We will provide another update in 30 minutes.
Oct 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM UTC
Investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests
Oct 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM UTC
Was your business affected by this GitHub outage?
Follow GitHub and route available status alerts to email or a team channel.