Resolved · lasted 1 h

GitHub outage on October 26

Reports for GitHub jumped to 150 an hour and stayed high for 1 h.

Started: 6:00 PM; October 26, 2026 · UTC
Back to normal: 7:00 PM; 1 h later
Peak: 150/hr; 3× normal
GitHub’s incident: 9 min; Incident with Actions, Issues, API Requests and Pull Requests

Reports during the outage

4:00 PM8:50 PM UTC

Resolved6:48 – 6:57 PM · 9 min

Incident with Actions, Issues, API Requests and Pull Requests

Resolved · 6:57 PM
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.
Monitoring · 6:54 PM
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.
Monitoring · 6:50 PM
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Investigating · 6:48 PM
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests, Actions, Issues and Pull Requests

GitHub posted its first update 48 min after reports started rising.

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