GitHub outage on October 26, 2026: Incident with Actions, Issues, API Requests and Pull Requests
GitHub reported an incident affecting GitHub for 9 minutes on 26 October 2026, from 18:48 to 18:57 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by GitHub
- Started
- 18:48
- 26 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 18:57
- 26 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 9m
- 9 minutes
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by GitHub
- Updates
- 4
- posted by GitHub
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from GitHub
Incident with Actions, Issues, API Requests and Pull Requests
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Official
Investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests, Actions, Issues and Pull Requests
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Official
Monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
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Official
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.
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Official
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.
"Official" rows are quoted from GitHub's public status page, www.githubstatus.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test github.com from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live GitHub status shows what our checks see right now.
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