Outage in GitHub
Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions
Resolved MajorIncident Report
Summary AI Generated
GitHub experienced a major outage lasting approximately 1.2 hours on October 7, 2026, with widespread degraded availability across Git Operations, Pull Requests, Actions, Webhooks, and Issues — with the core disruption concentrated between 15:06 and 15:16 UTC. Users were hit with 500 errors during the incident, including failures on basic operations like renaming repositories. The root cause was identified and mitigations were applied, with all systems fully recovered and stable by 16:25 UTC.
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Git Operations and Pull Requests
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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 04:25PM
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
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 04:23PM
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.
MONITORING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:58PM
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.
MONITORING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:56PM
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
MONITORING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:49PM
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:49PM
The degradation affecting Git Operations and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:47PM
The degradation affecting Issues has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:41PM
We are observing partial recovery across all systems. We are continuing to monitor and investigate the root cause of the disruption.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:35PM
Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:32PM
Actions is operating normally.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:31PM
The degradation affecting Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:27PM
Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:27PM
Git Operations is operating normally.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:25PM
Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:24PM
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.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:21PM
Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:16PM
Webhooks is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:15PM
Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:14PM
Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 10/07/2026 03:14PM
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Git Operations and Pull Requests
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