GitHub incident: Incident with Actions, Issues, API Requests and Pull Requests

Affected components

• API Requests
• Actions
• Issues
• Pull Requests

1. resolvedOct 26, 2026, 18:57 UTC

   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.

2. monitoringOct 26, 2026, 18:54 UTC

   We saw elevated latency affecting REST API requests, including Checks, and some Actions, Issues, Pull Requests, and GraphQL functionality. Some requests may have been slow or timed out, and notifications were delayed from 17:59 UTC - 18:40 UTC.<br /><br />We mitigated the issue and all services have recovered.

3. monitoringOct 26, 2026, 18:50 UTC

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

4. investigatingOct 26, 2026, 18:48 UTC

   We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests, Actions, Issues and Pull Requests

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in GitHub's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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