GitHub outage, 7 October 2026
Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions
- Started
- Resolved
- 7 Oct 2026, 16:25 UTC
- Impact
- Critical
- Affected
- Git Operations, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions
Last update from GitHub
On October 7, 2026, GitHub had two outages of write operations with the same cause, totaling about 19 minutes. The first ran from 15:06 to 15:16 UTC (about 10 minutes) and the second from 16:52 to 17:01 UTC (about 9 minutes). In both windows, actions that save or change data failed across Git operations, pull requests, issues, GitHub Actions, the API, webhooks, sign-in and authentication, GitHub Apps and OAuth, code scanning, Codespaces, and Copilot. Reading data was largely unaffected. In the first outage, 5.6% of all web and API requests failed, peaking at 8.9%, and more than 12,000 organizations saw failed requests. Up to 26% of Git authentication requests failed, and 17% of Actions work...
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