Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
GitHub mitigated degraded Actions, Issues, and Pull Requests, with notification delays still being fixed.
GitHub's status page reported degraded performance on October 12, 2026 for Actions, Issues, and Pull Requests. Users had trouble loading the Actions tab, using the Checks API, queueing workflow runs, creating or updating issues, and requesting pull-request reviews through REST and GraphQL. Pull Requests recovered first, and later updates said Actions, Issues, and Projects were mitigated while notification delays were still being addressed. The incident report does not describe a security compromise.
- GitHub Actions, Issues, and Pull Requests were degraded on October 12.
- Checks, issue, and pull-request review APIs were affected.
- Actions, Issues, and Projects were mitigated; notification delays continued.
- The status updates do not describe a security breach or attack.
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Update
We have mitigated the issues with Actions, issues, and projects, and have a mitigation in progress to address the delay with notifications.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 14:37 UTC
Update
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 14:36 UTC
Update
The degradation affecting Issues has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 14:35 UTC
Update
Our initial mitigation was not fully successful, and users may still experience delays and errors with Actions, issues and projects, and notifications are delayed. We're continuing to investigate the root cause and work on additional mitigations.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 13:38 UTC
Update
Pull Requests is operating normally.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 13:02 UTC
Update
We have a mitigation in progress and are monitoring for recovery. Users may also experience delayed web notifications as we mitigate.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 12:57 UTC
Update
Users may experience issues loading the Actions tab UI, interacting with the Checks API, queueing new Actions runs, creating and updating issues, and requesting PR reviews, including via REST and GraphQL APIs.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 12:33 UTC
Investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Issues and Pull Requests
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 12:21 UTC
This incident affects: Issues, Pull Requests, and Actions.