GitHub outage: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

Affected components

• API Requests
• Actions
• Git Operations
• Issues
• Pull Requests

1. resolvedNov 4, 2026, 11:50 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. monitoringNov 4, 2026, 11:43 UTC

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

3. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 11:30 UTC

   The degradation affecting API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

4. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 11:17 UTC

   We're currently working on mitigating elevated errors and intermittent failures affecting GitHub, including Pull Requests, Git Operations, and Issues. Some requests may fail or be delayed while we work to restore service. We'll provide another update as more information becomes available.

5. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 11:11 UTC

   API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

6. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 10:38 UTC

   We're investigating elevated errors and intermittent failures affecting GitHub including Pull Requests, Git Operations, and Issues. We'll continue to keep users updated as we work toward mitigation.

7. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 09:53 UTC

   Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

8. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 09:50 UTC

   Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

9. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 09:49 UTC

   We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Nov 4, 2026, 09:54 UTCoperational → degraded
• Nov 4, 2026, 11:44 UTCdegraded → operational

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How often does GitHub have incidents?

GitHub reported 67 incidents in the last 90 days, 24 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 15m. See GitHub's uptime and incident history