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Outage in GitHub

GitHub search is degraded

Resolved Major
April 27, 2026 - Started about 1 month ago - Lasted about 6 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

GitHub experienced a major service degradation lasting 6.3 hours that affected Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, and Packages due to excessive load on ElasticSearch clusters. Users encountered intermittent failures when viewing issues, pull requests, projects, and Actions workflow runs, along with search timeouts and workflow run failures. The incident was resolved after GitHub identified and disabled the source of the additional load causing stress on their infrastructure.

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

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RESOLVED about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 10:46PM

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 about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 10:44PM

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

MONITORING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 10:35PM

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

MONITORING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 09:33PM

The degradation affecting Actions, Issues, Packages and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 09:32PM

We've applied a mitigation and continuing to monitor

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 08:06PM

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

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 07:50PM

We have identified the source of the additional load causing stress on our ElasticSearch clusters. We have disabled the source of that load and are seeing signs of recovery

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 06:19PM

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

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 06:17PM

We're continuing to see connectivity issues reaching elasticsearch. Impact on downstream services will be intermittent as we find the root cause

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 05:35PM

Users are experiencing intermittent failures to view issues, pull requests, projects and Actions workflow runs.

We are still investigating and attempting mitigations. We will provide further updates.

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 04:53PM

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

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 04:39PM

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

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 04:36PM

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

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 04:33PM

Customers across GitHub are experiencing failures with searches. Examples include: workflow run failures, projects failing to load, and timed out search requests. This is due to an ongoing infrastructure issue that we have been investigating.

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 04/27/2026 04:31PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

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