GitHub experienced a major incident on July 23, 2026 affecting Webhooks and Issues and 1 more component, lasting 1h 45m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 23, 2026, 07:53 AM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Issues and Webhooks
- investigating Jul 23, 2026, 08:25 AM UTC
Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Jul 23, 2026, 08:34 AM UTC
We're currently investigating latency across multiple services. This can show as Actions jobs taking longer to start, Issues search serving stale results, and other listed services being similarly impacted.
- investigating Jul 23, 2026, 09:18 AM UTC
The degradation affecting Issues has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- investigating Jul 23, 2026, 09:19 AM UTC
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- investigating Jul 23, 2026, 09:22 AM UTC
We identified the source of latency affecting multiple services and applied a fix. Issues and Actions are recovering, and remaining affected services are seeing improvement as processing backlogs clear. We are actively monitoring recovery across all services.
- investigating Jul 23, 2026, 09:27 AM UTC
The degradation affecting Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- investigating Jul 23, 2026, 09:35 AM UTC
Webhooks is operating normally.
- monitoring Jul 23, 2026, 09:39 AM UTC
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- resolved Jul 23, 2026, 09:39 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.