GitHub experienced a minor incident on August 13, 2026 affecting Git Operations and Webhooks and 1 more component, lasting 50m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 13, 2026, 02:45 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Webhooks
- investigating Aug 13, 2026, 02:46 PM UTC
Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Aug 13, 2026, 02:46 PM UTC
Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Aug 13, 2026, 02:46 PM UTC
Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Aug 13, 2026, 02:56 PM UTC
Packages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Aug 13, 2026, 02:58 PM UTC
We are currently investigating a brief degradation of service for Git operations (specifically pushes), issues, pull requests, package registry, and webhooks between 14:32 and 14:46 UTC. We have identified the source of the degradation and are investigating mitigation strategies to prevent recurrence.
- monitoring Aug 13, 2026, 03:33 PM UTC
The degradation affecting Git Operations, Issues, Packages, Pull Requests and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- monitoring Aug 13, 2026, 03:33 PM UTC
We have temporarily disabled a background job which caused the impact. At this time the impact is fully mitigated.
- resolved Aug 13, 2026, 03:36 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.