# GitHub Copilot: Critical incident: Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests

**Summary:** GitHub reported a critical incident affecting Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests, opened at 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC and resolved at 2026-10-07 18:04 UTC (47 min). Actual write-operation disruption occurred from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, recurring from an earlier outage with the same root cause; mitigations were applied. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: degradation (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/4p8x0jnnsx7m](https://stspg.io/4p8x0jnnsx7m)
- [Company: GitHub Copilot](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:18/qpfv5p86dmrl@cf598806331a
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests
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**2. Added: Impact**

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+ critical
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**3. Added: Status**

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+ resolved
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**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2026-10-07 18:04 UTC
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**6. Added: Affected components**

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+ Actions, Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests
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**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC

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+ We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests
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**8. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-10-07 17:25 UTC

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+ 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.
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**9. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-10-07 17:27 UTC

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+ The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
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**10. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-10-07 18:00 UTC

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+ All systems have recovered. We have applied mitigations and do not anticipate another recurrence.
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**11. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-10-07 18:04 UTC

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+ On October 7, 2026, from 16:52 to 17:01 UTC, GitHub experienced a recurrence of the write-operation outage from earlier that day. Both outages shared the same root cause. Please refer to the combined summary covering both incidents, their impact, and our prevention measures: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC | Critical incident: Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests (this change) | degradation |

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