GitHub reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Sep 20, 2026, 22:13 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 9m.
Right now GitHub is operational. Live GitHub status →
On September 20, 2026, between 21:46 and 22:24 UTC the Pull Requests service was degraded and pull request merge and test-merge commits were created late, with delays reaching approximately four minutes at peak. Merge commits were delayed rather than lost. Because some Actions workflow runs start only after a pull request's merge commit is created, a subset of workflow runs for pull request events were also delayed. <br /><br />This was due to a routine repository maintenance job for an unusually large repository consuming nearly all of the memory on a single Git storage server, which left that server unable to serve the Git operations used to create merge commits. <br /><br />We mitigated the incident by removing the affected server from service at 22:18 UTC, after which the queued merge commits were created within six minutes. <br /><br />We have capped the memory a single repository maintenance job may consume so that one repository cannot exhaust a server, and we have improved moni
A git fileserver issue caused a brief delay in creating some merge commits - we've isolated the underlying server and already observed recovery.
The degradation affecting Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests
Overlapping incidents aren't necessarily related.
GitHub reported 66 incidents in the last 90 days, 26 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 21m. See GitHub's uptime and incident history