---
id: "INC-github-qpfv5p86dmrl"
kind: "incident"
aliases: []
title: "GitHub: Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests"
severity: "critical"
cvss: null
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "resolved"
category: "vendor"
products: [{"name": "GitHub", "fixed": [], "affected": "", "ecosystem": "vendor"}]
ecosystems: ["vendor"]
tags: ["ci", "git", "github", "incident", "ops", "vendor"]
not_affected_if: []
published_at: "2026-10-07T17:17:05+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-23T19:12:22+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-23T20:20:06+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "statuspage", "url": "https://stspg.io/4p8x0jnnsx7m", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-23T19:12:22+00:00"}]
---

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

## Affected

- vendor:GitHub affected ? fixed ?

## Timeline

- 2026-10-23T19:12:22+00:00 statuspage https://stspg.io/4p8x0jnnsx7m

## From the sources

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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