Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

Incident Report for GitHub

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.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 20:16 UTC

Update

Web and email notifications will be delayed for 1 more hour as we are close to completing the backlog of notifications.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 19:28 UTC

Update

Web and email notifications continue to be delayed as we work through a backlog of notifications.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 17:34 UTC

Update

Notifications have resumed but will continue to be delayed as we work through a backlog.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 15:50 UTC

Update

We have successfully applied a mitigation for notifications, and notifications have resumed but will continue to be delayed as we work through a backlog.
Posted Oct 12, 2026 - 15:19 UTC

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 affected: Issues, Pull Requests, and Actions.