Critical incident

GitHub: Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests

Affected: Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions

Current status of GitHub: Operational — live GitHub status

Timeline

1. Oct 7, 2026, 17:17 UTC
   investigating
   We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests
2. Oct 7, 2026, 17:25 UTC
   investigating
   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.
3. Oct 7, 2026, 17:27 UTC
   monitoring
   The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
4. Oct 7, 2026, 18:00 UTC
   monitoring
   All systems have recovered. We have applied mitigations and do not anticipate another recurrence.
5. Oct 7, 2026, 18:04 UTC
   resolved
   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

Updates as published by GitHub (original).