GitHub experienced a minor incident on September 23, 2026 affecting API Requests, lasting 18h 44m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 10:11 AM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC
Database replicas have detached. We're working to restore the database replicas. Users may experience issues beyond creating organizations and a degraded experience with the GitHub API and Projects.
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC
Database replicas have been restored. Org creation and the GitHub API are no longer degraded.
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC
The degradation affecting API Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 11:38 AM UTC
We are seeing recovery for Projects. Users may experience stale search results for Projects while indexing catches up.
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 01:35 PM UTC
Users may experience stale Project search results. We are working to increase indexing speed. All other services are available.
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 05:01 PM UTC
Updates to issue labels may be delayed in being reflected in Projects by about ~10 minutes. We have added some capacity to work through the backlog more quickly, but it'll likely be a few hours to complete processing the full backlog of messages. All other services are available.
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 05:30 PM UTC
We will post another update in approximately one hour to share our progress.
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 06:42 PM UTC
Continuing to investigate the lag that may be experienced in issue labels being accurately reflected in Projects. We are working on alternate solutions to process the backlog of label updates.
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 08:26 PM UTC
We are preparing to deploy a change that will mitigate the impact.
- investigating Sep 23, 2026, 09:39 PM UTC
Updates to issue labels may be delayed in being reflected in Projects. We are continuing to deploy a change that will accelerate processing of the backlog of label updates. All other services are available. We will provide another update within the next hour.
- investigating Sep 24, 2026, 12:16 AM UTC
We've deployed a change intended to accelerate processing of the backlog of issue label updates in Projects. A sizable backlog still remains and we continue working through it. All other services are operating normally. We will provide another update within the next hour.
- investigating Sep 24, 2026, 02:00 AM UTC
We are continuing to process the backlog of issue label updates for Projects. Users may still see delays before label changes are reflected in Projects. All other services are operating normally.
- investigating Sep 24, 2026, 03:14 AM UTC
We are continuing to process the backlog of issue label updates for Projects. Label changes may still be delayed. All other services are operating normally.
- monitoring Sep 24, 2026, 04:55 AM UTC
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- resolved Sep 24, 2026, 04:55 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.