GitHub experienced a critical incident on September 13, 2026 affecting API Requests and Issues and 1 more component, lasting 1h 28m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 13, 2026, 09:16 AM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for API Requests, Issues, Pages and Pull Requests
- investigating Sep 13, 2026, 09:25 AM UTC
Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Sep 13, 2026, 09:36 AM UTC
We're seeing increased database replication delays on collab which is causing increased error rates in authorization endpoints and follow-on increased error rates across the system - we are investigating
- investigating Sep 13, 2026, 10:26 AM UTC
We have reduced load on this cluster with internal load-shedding and are seeing signs of recovery but continue to monitor
- investigating Sep 13, 2026, 10:28 AM UTC
Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- resolved Sep 13, 2026, 10:44 AM 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.