On Oct 07, 2026, starting around 15:14 UTC engineering teams investigated reports of degraded availability affecting Actions, Git Operations and Pull Requests. The incident impacted multiple GitHub components - Git Operations, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests and Actions - with widespread service degradation observed between 15:06 UTC and 15:16 UTC. Status updates logged a progression from initial investigation to specific degradations: Issues reported degraded performance at 15:15 UTC, Webhooks showed degraded availability at 15:16 UTC and degraded performance at 15:14-15:27 UTC windows, and Pull Requests and Actions were explicitly noted as experiencing degraded performance while teams continued to probe root causes.
Subsequent updates recorded recovery activity and partial restorations: by 15:24 UTC teams observed systems recovering after the 15:06-15:16 UTC impact window, and Git Operations was reported operating normally at 15:27 UTC. Throughout the incident GitHub provided rolling status updates and encouraged users to subscribe for notifications via email, SMS, Slack or webhooks for creation, updates and resolutions. The timeline captures the affected services, the minutes-long impact window, and confirmations of recovery while investigation into the underlying root cause continued.
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