GitHub experienced a critical incident on October 6, 2026 affecting Webhooks and Pull Requests, lasting 3h 43m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 06, 2026, 07:57 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests and Webhooks
- investigating Oct 06, 2026, 08:04 PM UTC
Webhooks is operating normally.
- investigating Oct 06, 2026, 08:12 PM UTC
Pull Requests is operating normally.
- investigating Oct 06, 2026, 08:22 PM UTC
A number of services including issues, pull requests, and webhooks, were briefly degraded, but have now recovered. Enterprise migrations are paused while we validate causes and mitigations.
- monitoring Oct 06, 2026, 08:26 PM UTC
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- investigating Oct 06, 2026, 08:57 PM UTC
All services are functioning normally except for enterprise migrations, which are still paused. They will resume soon.
- investigating Oct 06, 2026, 09:29 PM UTC
We are working towards a mitigation that will allow us to resume processing enterprise migrations.
- investigating Oct 06, 2026, 10:40 PM UTC
We are deploying a mitigation and plan to resume migrations shortly thereafter
- resolved Oct 06, 2026, 11:40 PM 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.