GitHub outage on Oct 26, 2026: incident with Actions, Issues, API Requests and Pull Requests

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18:48 UTC
Investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests, Actions, Issues and Pull Requests
18:50 UTC
Monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
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.<br /><br />We mitigated the issue and all services have recovered.
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.

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GitHub's updates

18:48 UTC

Investigating

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests, Actions, Issues and Pull Requests

18:50 UTC

Monitoring

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

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.<br /><br />We mitigated the issue and all services have recovered.

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.