GitHub reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Apr 28, 2026, 14:17 UTC. It was resolved after 2d 13h.
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On April 28, 2026, at approximately 14:07 UTC, GitHub received reports that pull requests were missing from search results across global and repository /pulls pages. The issue was caused by a manually invoked repair job intended for a single repository, which was executed without the required safety flags. During execution of the repair job, the database query remained correctly scoped to the repo’s PR IDs. However, the Elasticsearch reconciliation logic did not apply the same scope. It interpreted the min and max PR IDs as a continuous range, causing unrelated PR documents across other repos to be marked for deletion. This resulted in the removal of 1,789,756,838 PR documents from the search index, approximately 49% of indexed PR documents. Customer impact was limited to PR search and list discoverability. Primary storage was unaffected, and there was no impact to opening, updating, or merging PRs. The issue was identified ~10 minutes after initial customer reports. Because it affe
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