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Outage in GitHub

Latency issues across a number of services

Resolved Major
July 23, 2026 - Started about 14 hours ago - Lasted about 2 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

GitHub experienced latency and degraded performance across Actions, Issues, Pull Requests, and Webhooks for approximately 1.8 hours, with users reporting PRs stuck in processing, stale results, and merge checks taking excessively long to complete. The root cause was identified as a latency issue affecting multiple services simultaneously, with a fix applied that allowed backlogs to clear progressively. All affected services were fully restored and the incident resolved, with a root cause analysis to follow.

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Issues and Webhooks

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RESOLVED about 13 hours ago - at 07/23/2026 09:39AM

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 about 13 hours ago - at 07/23/2026 09:35AM

Webhooks is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING about 13 hours ago - at 07/23/2026 09:27AM

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

INVESTIGATING about 13 hours ago - at 07/23/2026 09:22AM

We identified the source of latency affecting multiple services and applied a fix. Issues and Actions are recovering, and remaining affected services are seeing improvement as processing backlogs clear. We are actively monitoring recovery across all services.

INVESTIGATING about 13 hours ago - at 07/23/2026 09:19AM

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

INVESTIGATING about 13 hours ago - at 07/23/2026 09:18AM

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

INVESTIGATING about 14 hours ago - at 07/23/2026 08:34AM

We're currently investigating latency across multiple services. This can show as Actions jobs taking longer to start, Issues search serving stale results, and other listed services being similarly impacted.

INVESTIGATING about 14 hours ago - at 07/23/2026 08:25AM

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

INVESTIGATING about 14 hours ago - at 07/23/2026 07:53AM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Issues and Webhooks

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