Outage in Merge Freeze

Degraded GitHub API and webhooks

Resolved Minor

February 09, 2026 - Started 5 days ago - Lasted about 3 hours
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This is an ongoing GitHub incident.

Components affected

Merge Freeze GitHub Webhooks Merge Freeze GitHub API Requests

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED 5 days ago - at 02/09/2026 10:28PM

We haven't seen GitHub API issues in almost an hour and the GitHub incident has been resolved.

INVESTIGATING 5 days ago - at 02/09/2026 09:42PM

We are still seeing failed GitHub calls and are continuing to monitor.

INVESTIGATING 5 days ago - at 02/09/2026 09:32PM

This issue is still ongoing. We've seen some improvement on webhooks, but GitHub API endpoints are still being throttled and may impact our service.

INVESTIGATING 5 days ago - at 02/09/2026 07:14PM

This is an ongoing GitHub incident.

Latest Merge Freeze outages

Slack outage - 23 days ago

GitHub outage - 23 days ago

Long github auth callback duration - 25 days ago

Freeze and unfreeze services down - over 1 year ago

Freeze and unfreeze services down - almost 2 years ago

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