Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests

Summary

Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests

On October 7, 2026, from 16:52 to 17:01 UTC, GitHub experienced a recurrence of the write-operation outage from earlier that day. Both outages shared the same root cause. Please refer to the combined summary covering both incidents, their impact, and our prevention measures: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7

• Started

  Oct 7, 2026 · 5:17 PM

• Resolved

  Oct 7, 2026 · 6:04 PM

• Duration

  47m

• Severity

  Critical

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  Investigating

  Oct 7 · 5:17 PM GitHub

  We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests

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  Investigating

  Oct 7 · 5:25 PM GitHub

  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 in 30 minutes.

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  Monitoring

  Oct 7 · 5:27 PM GitHub

  The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

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  Monitoring

  Oct 7 · 6:00 PM GitHub

  All systems have recovered. We have applied mitigations and do not anticipate another recurrence.

• ✓

  Resolved

  Oct 7 · 6:04 PM GitHub

  On October 7, 2026, from 16:52 to 17:01 UTC, GitHub experienced a recurrence of the write-operation outage from earlier that day. Both outages shared the same root cause. Please refer to the combined summary covering both incidents, their impact, and our prevention measures: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7