GitHub experienced degraded performance lasting approximately 28.7 hours, impacting Pull Requests, Issues, Copilot, Actions, Webhooks, and API requests. The incident was identified on August 17, 2026, and fully resolved on August 18, 2026. Liquid Web communicated the issue by directing customers to the GitHub status page for updates throughout the outage.
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This incident has been resolved.
GitHub is reporting degraded performance via their status page this morning:
https://www.githubstatus.com/
Per the page, this problem may be affecting Pull Requests, Issues, Copilot, Actions, Webhooks, and API requests, among other services. Customers should follow the GitHub status page for the latest information.
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