GitHub outage, 13 September 2026
Incident with several GitHub Services
- Started
- Resolved
- 13 Sept 2026, 10:44 UTC (after 1 h 28 min)
- Impact
- Critical
- Affected
- API Requests, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, Pages
Last update from GitHub
On September 13, 2026, between 08:43 and 10:44 UTC, GitHub experienced degraded availability across approximately 28 services, including Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, Codespaces, Pages, Notifications, Code Scanning, Git LFS, and new account signup. At peak, 8.8% of requests to create GitHub App installation access tokens failed. Token issuance for Actions workflows was also affected, impacting approximately 4% of workflows during the incident time frame. Creating issues through the web interface failed for about 96% of attempts, and signup failures were above 90%. <br /> <br />The cause was an internal data-cleanup job that began writing to a shared database cluster at 07:33 UTC. That cl...
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