GitHub incident
Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests
GitHub experienced a critical incident on October 7, 2026 affecting Git Operations and Issues and 1 more component, lasting 47m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 07, 2026, 05:17 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests
- investigating Oct 07, 2026, 05:25 PM UTC
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 shortly.
- monitoring Oct 07, 2026, 05:27 PM UTC
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- monitoring Oct 07, 2026, 06:00 PM UTC
All systems have recovered. We have applied mitigations and do not anticipate another recurrence.
- resolved Oct 07, 2026, 06:04 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.