GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions
GitHub reported a short outage degrading Git operations, pull requests, Actions, webhooks, and issues.
GitHub’s status page reported degraded service beginning around 15:14 UTC on October 7, 2026. Widespread impact was observed from 15:06 to 15:16 UTC across Git Operations, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests, and Actions. Later updates said Actions and pull requests recovered and Git operations briefly returned to normal, while investigation of remaining degradation continued. No security cause was stated.
- Degradation hit Git operations, pull requests, Actions, webhooks, and issues.
- Widespread impact was reported between 15:06 and 15:16 UTC.
- Later updates said several services recovered while investigation continued.
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Update
Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:35 UTC
Update
Actions is operating normally.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:32 UTC
Update
The degradation affecting Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:31 UTC
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Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:27 UTC
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Git Operations is operating normally.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:27 UTC
Update
Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:25 UTC
Update
We observed widespread impact across GitHub services between 15:06 UTC and 15:16 UTC, and are investigating the root cause. We are seeing all systems recover, and will provide another update shortly.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:24 UTC
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Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:21 UTC
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Webhooks is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:16 UTC
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Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:15 UTC
Update
Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:14 UTC
Investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Git Operations and Pull Requests
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 15:14 UTC
This incident affects: Git Operations, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests, and Actions.