Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved
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GitHub experienced a widespread outage affecting multiple services on October 7, 2026.
GitHub suffered degraded performance across Git Operations, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests, and Actions, with widespread impact between 15:06 UTC and 15:16 UTC. The incident was fully resolved by 16:25 UTC. Root cause analysis is pending. Outage updates reported partial recovery by 15:41 UTC, with mitigations applied by 15:56 UTC.
What commenters are saying
Commenters expressed frustration, with many noting the severity of being unable to push or create issues (500 errors). Some speculated the outage might relate to new webhook IP ranges added that morning. Several users advocated migrating to alternatives like Forgejo, Gitea, or GitLab CE, citing GitHub's poor uptime. Others pointed out that GitHub remains practically mandatory for services like Homebrew taps and Terraform registries, or for free managed macOS/Windows runners.