GitHub experienced degraded availability for Pull Requests over approximately 2.8 hours, where a subset of merge attempts were timing out — initially affecting around 3% of requests. Mitigating actions were applied during the incident, reducing the failure rate to under 1% before full stability was restored. The incident was resolved on November 13, 2026, with a root cause analysis to follow.
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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.
We continue to monitor the stability of merge requests.
The degradation affecting Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
We’re continuing to investigate and monitor ~1% of merge requests timing out.
We’ve taken mitigating action to resolve the problem of merge requests timing out. This issue initially impacted 3% of requests and is now down to less than 1%. We continue to monitor recovery.
Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
We’re investigating an issue with Pull Requests where some attempts to merge are timing out.
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Pull Requests
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