Degraded performance for multiple GitHub services
Git Operations, Issues, Actions, Pages
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Last official update:
Resolved:
Published incident duration: 45 minutes.
On November 5, 2026, between 23:21 and approximately 23:26 UTC, several GitHub services experienced elevated errors, including Git operations, Issues, Actions, authentication, and API requests. Customers may have encountered failed requests and Git pushes, and some Actions workflow runs were delayed. This incident was caused by a bug in our database failover automation during planned maintenance. The automation stopped before completing the switch to a replacement database primary, leaving the existing primary unable to accept writes. We mitigated the disruption by restoring writes on the original primary. We subsequently completed the maintenance and monitored services to confir
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Official update timeline
- · resolved
On November 5, 2026, between 23:21 and approximately 23:26 UTC, several GitHub services experienced elevated errors, including Git operations, Issues, Actions, authentication, and API requests. Customers may have encountered failed requests and Git pushes, and some Actions workflow runs were delayed. This incident was caused by a bug in our database failover automation during planned maintenance. The automation stopped before completing the switch to a replacement database primary, leaving the existing primary unable to accept writes. We mitigated the disruption by restoring writes on the original primary. We subsequently completed the maintenance and monitored services to confir
- · monitoring
This incident has been resolved. All affected services, including Git operations, Issues, Actions, and API access, have recovered and remained stable. Thank you for your patience. We'll share more details in our availability report.
- · investigating
Git Operations is operating normally.
- · monitoring
We've applied a mitigation and are seeing recovery across affected services, including Git operations, Issues, Actions, and API access. We're monitoring to confirm stability and will post another update by 00:35 UTC.
- · monitoring
The degradation affecting Actions, Issues and Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- · investigating
Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- · investigating
We're investigating degraded performance and errors affecting several GitHub services, including Git operations, Issues, Actions, and API access. Some users may see failed requests or slow responses. We'll post another update by 00:05 UTC.
- · investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pages