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GitHub outage: Several services are degraded

GitHub reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 6, 2026, 19:57 UTC. It was resolved after 3h 43m.

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Oct 6, 2026, 19:57 UTC
started
Oct 6, 2026, 23:40 UTC
resolved
3h 43m
duration
Critical
impact

Affected components

  • Pull Requests
  • Webhooks
  1. resolvedOct 6, 2026, 23:40 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. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 22:40 UTC

    We are deploying a mitigation and plan to resume migrations shortly thereafter

  3. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 21:29 UTC

    We are working towards a mitigation that will allow us to resume processing enterprise migrations.

  4. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 20:57 UTC

    All services are functioning normally except for enterprise migrations, which are still paused. They will resume soon.

  5. monitoringOct 6, 2026, 20:26 UTC

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

  6. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 20:22 UTC

    A number of services including issues, pull requests, and webhooks, were briefly degraded, but have now recovered. Enterprise migrations are paused while we validate causes and mitigations.

  7. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 20:12 UTC

    Pull Requests is operating normally.

  8. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 20:04 UTC

    Webhooks is operating normally.

  9. investigatingOct 6, 2026, 19:57 UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests and Webhooks

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Oct 6, 2026, 19:59 UTCoperational → degraded
  • Oct 6, 2026, 20:13 UTCdegraded → operational

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GitHub outage on Oct 6, 2026: Several services are degraded · APIStatus.watch