Critical incident

GitHub: Several services are degraded

Oct 6, 2026, 19:57 UTC

started

23:40 UTC

resolved

3 h 43 min

duration

Affected: Webhooks, Pull Requests

Current status of GitHub: Operational — live GitHub status

Timeline

Oct 6, 2026, 19:57 UTC
investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests and Webhooks
Oct 6, 2026, 20:04 UTC
investigating
Webhooks is operating normally.
Oct 6, 2026, 20:12 UTC
investigating
Pull Requests is operating normally.
Oct 6, 2026, 20:22 UTC
investigating
A number of services including issues, pull requests, and webhooks, were briefly degraded, but have now recovered. Enterprise migrations are paused while we validate causes and mitigations.
Oct 6, 2026, 20:26 UTC
monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Oct 6, 2026, 20:57 UTC
investigating
All services are functioning normally except for enterprise migrations, which are still paused. They will resume soon.
Oct 6, 2026, 21:29 UTC
investigating
We are working towards a mitigation that will allow us to resume processing enterprise migrations.
Oct 6, 2026, 22:40 UTC
investigating
We are deploying a mitigation and plan to resume migrations shortly thereafter
Oct 6, 2026, 23:40 UTC
resolved
On October 6, 2026, from 19:44 to 19:50 UTC, GitHub experienced a service outage with elevated error rates peaking at 1.30% of all requests, totaling approximately 1.16 million failed requests. This impacted 12 services across GitHub, including Pull Requests, Webhooks, Repos, OAuth, Git over SSH, Codespaces, and Gists. The incident was triggered by GitHub Enterprise Importer (GEI) making multiple, long duration queries which saturated a database connection pool. Recovery was seen at approximately 19:50 UTC once the migration's calls stopped; GEI migrations were reenabled at 23:32 UTC after a code fix was merged. We have completed a detailed root-cause review and are implementing improved database-health safeguards. We will continue to review and add additional safeguards to prevent future recurrence.

Updates as published by GitHub (original).

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Ledger 19:18 UTC · Kaspa (KAS) Mainnet Degraded Service
Pylon 19:13 UTC · Platform loading issues and events processing delay
one.com 19:12 UTC · Issues with website access
Coralogix 19:12 UTC · AP1 - increased latency in Metrics/Logs Ingestion
Bynder 18:58 UTC · Studio not loading for US Portals
Sentry 18:57 UTC · Sentry dashboard down

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