- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Major outage
- Components
- Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions
- Down Index
- 46of 100
What to do
Check whether you use GitHub Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions. Check your stack
Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 48m it lasted.
Anything that failed between 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC and 2026-10-07 18:04 UTC may need a replay.Subscribe to GitHub's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed
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Root cause
We observed widespread impact across GitHub services from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, and are investigating the root cause.Read the postmortem
Updates from GitHub 5
- investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests
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- investigating
We observed widespread impact across GitHub services from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, and are investigating the root cause. All systems have recovered. This incident is a reoccurrence of the incident from earlier in the day https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7. Durable mitigation is in progress. We will provide another update in 30 minutes.
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- monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
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- monitoring
All systems have recovered. We have applied mitigations and do not anticipate another recurrence.
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- resolved
On October 7, 2026, from 16:52 to 17:01 UTC, GitHub experienced a recurrence of the write-operation outage from earlier that day. Both outages shared the same root cause. Please refer to the combined summary covering both incidents, their impact, and our prevention measures: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-f092aff10c
Is GitHub still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-10-07 18:04 UTC. For GitHub's live state, see https://down.guide/github.
How long did it last?
48m, from 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC to 2026-10-07 18:04 UTC, by the times GitHub posted.
What was affected?
GitHub named Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions.
What caused it?
GitHub wrote: "We observed widespread impact across GitHub services from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, and are investigating the root cause." The postmortem: https://stspg.io/4p8x0jnnsx7m
Where does this come from?
GitHub's official status page, https://www.githubstatus.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.