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

Impact: criticalStatus: resolvedStarted Resolved (48 min)5 updatesSource: stspg.io (opens in new tab)
Summary

GitHub reported a critical degradation affecting Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests, with a recurring write-operation outage from 16:52 to 17:01 UTC. The incident opened at 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC and resolved at 2026-10-07 18:04 UTC, lasting 47 min. GitHub applied mitigations and said both outages shared the same root cause, without specifying it here.

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Affected components: Git OperationsActionsPull RequestsIssues

Timeline of updates

  1. investigating

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

  2. investigating

    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.

  3. monitoring

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

  4. monitoring

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

  5. resolved

    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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