Merge Freeze Status · History · Incident #124888

RESOLVED

GitHub outage

Minor · Started Aug 17, 2026 · 8:30 AM

Duration

< 1m
Severity

Minor
Detection lead

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User reports

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Summary

GitHub outage

GitHub API and webhooks were degraded and then unavailable until 12:06 PM CST

Started

Aug 17, 2026 · 8:30 AM
Resolved

Aug 17, 2026 · 8:30 AM
Duration

< 1m
Severity

None

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

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Resolved
Aug 17 · 12:12 PM Merge Freeze

GitHub API and webhooks were degraded and then unavailable until 12:06 PM CST

Pattern

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