Outage report · Major outage
GitHub outage on Oct 7, 2026
Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests
What happened
GitHub reported a major outage starting Oct 7, 2026, 17:17 UTC, affecting Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions. It was marked resolved at Oct 7, 2026, 18:04 UTC.
- The incident lasted 48m from first report to resolution.
- GitHub had reported 6 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 8 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from GitHub
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
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of GitHub started after this incident, so this report is based on GitHub's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
GitHub's overall reliability
GitHub has a reliability score of 47.2/100, with 98.38% effective uptime and 35 incidents over the last 90 days.
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