Minor incident

GitHub: Incident with Actions, Issues, API Requests and Pull Requests

Affected: API Requests, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions

Current status of GitHub: Operational — live GitHub status

Timeline

1. Oct 26, 2026, 18:48 UTC
   investigating
   We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests, Actions, Issues and Pull Requests
2. Oct 26, 2026, 18:50 UTC
   monitoring
   The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
3. Oct 26, 2026, 18:54 UTC
   monitoring
   We saw elevated latency affecting REST API requests, including Checks, and some Actions, Issues, Pull Requests, and GraphQL functionality. Some requests may have been slow or timed out, and notifications were delayed from 17:59 UTC - 18:40 UTC. We mitigated the issue and all services have recovered.
4. Oct 26, 2026, 18:57 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

Updates as published by GitHub (original).