# GitHub: Incident silently edited: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

> Incident silently edited: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues. Detected 2026-11-13 by Rewindex: what changed on GitHub’s status page, with the before/after diff.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r7002f6a42e3aac
Last updated: 2026-11-13T16:53:37Z

**Summary:** _summary pending_
- Kind: Silent edit · Label: not classified yet
- Changed: 2026-11-13 16:53 UTC · Detected: 2026-11-13 16:53 UTC
- [Source: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smtdswd1h2w4](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smtdswd1h2w4)
- [Company: GitHub](https://rewindex.com/company/github.md)
- Versions: before incident\_version:187/smtdswd1h2w4@2e18bf6f68f7 → after incident\_version:187/smtdswd1h2w4@762262eb0917
- Change 8 of 8 for this incident

## Discussed on Hacker News

- [Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363378): 264 points, 133 comments, posted 2026-11-04 10:00 UTC, posted 9 min after the vendor’s first update
- [Tell HN: GitHub Is Down](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363274): 29 points, 16 comments, posted 2026-11-04 09:50 UTC, posted 1 min before the vendor’s first update

Incident page (full timeline): [Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues](https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/smtdswd1h2w4.md)
## What changed

**1. Changed: Update** (resolved) · 2026-11-04 11:50 UTC

```diff
- 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.
+ On November 4, 2026, beginning at approximately 09:35 UTC, customers experienced intermittent errors and delays across several GitHub services, including Pull Requests, Issues, APIs, Git operations, and Actions. The disruption was caused by a shared database reaching capacity. We restored service by switching to another database host. Recovery began around 11:24 UTC, and the remaining Actions impact was mitigated by 11:43 UTC. The incident was resolved at 11:50 UTC. We have since made changes to reduce database load, increased capacity, and added monitoring to help identify similar problems earlier. We are also improving our recovery procedures.
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-11-04 09:50 UTC | [Major incident: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues](https://rewindex.com/change/i4bb3c9de5d5208.md) | degradation |
| 2026-11-04 10:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues](https://rewindex.com/change/r815fc4b1b5d853.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-11-04 10:43 UTC | [Incident updated: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues](https://rewindex.com/change/r20ea415302701a.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-11-04 11:14 UTC | [Incident updated: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues](https://rewindex.com/change/r27ecbb71dc414b.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-11-04 11:23 UTC | [Incident updated: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues](https://rewindex.com/change/r175c80bf05ae39.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-11-04 11:33 UTC | [Incident updated: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues](https://rewindex.com/change/r6c3014061ffed2.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-11-04 11:53 UTC | [Incident updated: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues](https://rewindex.com/change/r4edb48fef1b86c.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-11-13 16:53 UTC | Incident silently edited: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (this change) |  |

Previous: [change](https://rewindex.com/change/r4edb48fef1b86c.md) · All GitHub changes: [timeline](https://rewindex.com/company/github/changes.md)
_Diff excerpts are shown on normalized text: dates, counters and tokens appear as ‹date›, ‹count›, ‹tok›; noise-only edits are hidden. Rewindex shows the changed passages, not a copy of the page._

## Cite this

Incident silently edited: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues on GitHub’s status page, changed 2026-11-13 16:53 UTC (change 8 of 8).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/change/r7002f6a42e3aac
- Citation: GitHub, “Incident silently edited: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues” (2026-11-13 16:53 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/change/r7002f6a42e3aac (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub: Incident silently edited: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (2026-11-13)](https://rewindex.com/change/r7002f6a42e3aac)`


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r7002f6a42e3aac · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/change/r7002f6a42e3aac.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/changes/r7002f6a42e3aac · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-11-14T04:20:12.578Z