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

Affected components

• Actions
• Git Operations
• Issues
• Pull Requests

1. resolvedOct 7, 2026, 18:04 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. monitoringOct 7, 2026, 18:00 UTC

   All systems have recovered. We have applied mitigations and do not anticipate another recurrence.

3. monitoringOct 7, 2026, 17:27 UTC

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

4. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 17:25 UTC

   We observed widespread impact across GitHub services from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, and are investigating the root cause. All systems have recovered. This incident is a reoccurrence of the incident from earlier in the day https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7. Durable mitigation is in progress. We will provide another update in 30 minutes.

5. investigatingOct 7, 2026, 17:17 UTC

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

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in GitHub's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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How often does GitHub have incidents?

GitHub reported 69 incidents in the last 90 days, 29 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 20m. See GitHub's uptime and incident history