Critical impactOngoingDevOps

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

GitHub reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 7, 2026, 15:14 UTC. It has not been marked resolved yet.

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Oct 7, 2026, 15:14 UTC
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Affected components

  • Actions
  • Git Operations
  • Issues
  • Pull Requests
  • Webhooks
  1. monitoringOct 7, 2026, 15:58 UTC

    We are seeing full recovery across all systems including Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions. We are continuing to investigate the root cause of the disruption between 15:06 UTC and 15:16 UTC, and will share another update shortly.

  2. monitoringOct 7, 2026, 15:56 UTC

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

  3. monitoringOct 7, 2026, 15:49 UTC

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

  4. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:49 UTC

    The degradation affecting Git Operations and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  5. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:47 UTC

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

  6. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:41 UTC

    We are observing partial recovery across all systems. We are continuing to monitor and investigate the root cause of the disruption.

  7. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:35 UTC

    Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  8. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:32 UTC

    Actions is operating normally.

  9. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:31 UTC

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

  10. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:27 UTC

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

  11. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:27 UTC

    Git Operations is operating normally.

  12. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:25 UTC

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

  13. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:24 UTC

    We observed widespread impact across GitHub services between 15:06 UTC and 15:16 UTC, and are investigating the root cause. We are seeing all systems recover, and will provide another update shortly.

  14. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:21 UTC

    Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  15. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:16 UTC

    Webhooks is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

  16. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:15 UTC

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

  17. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:14 UTC

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

  18. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 15:14 UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Git Operations and Pull Requests

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Oct 7, 2026, 15:19 UTCoperational → partial outage
  • Oct 7, 2026, 15:34 UTCpartial outage → degraded
  • Oct 7, 2026, 15:53 UTCdegraded → operational

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