# Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests

- Provider: [GitHub](https://down.guide/github)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Major outage
- lasted 48m
- started 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC
- Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests +1
- id: DWN-f092aff10c
- Official page: https://stspg.io/4p8x0jnnsx7m

## Root cause
> We observed widespread impact across GitHub services from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, and are investigating the root cause.

[Postmortem](https://stspg.io/4p8x0jnnsx7m)

## Updates from GitHub
### 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC: investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests

### 2026-10-07 17:25 UTC: 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.

### 2026-10-07 17:27 UTC: monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

### 2026-10-07 18:00 UTC: monitoring
All systems have recovered. We have applied mitigations and do not anticipate another recurrence.

### 2026-10-07 18:04 UTC: 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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