GitHub outage on 7 October 2026
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“Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests”
On 7 October, GitHub had a critical outage affecting Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests, which was tracked from 17:18 to 18:06 UTC (49 minutes). GitHub's status page said the widespread impact actually ran from 16:52 to 17:01 UTC, before the incident was opened, and described it as a recurrence of an incident from earlier that day; no cause was stated. OpenAI and GitLab also reported minor issues at the same time.
GitHub’s own incident page ↗- When
- 17:18–18:06 UTC
- How long
- 49 min
- Incident open on its page
- 17:17–18:04 UTC
- GitHub, 30 days before
- 5 other outages
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 57 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Resolved
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads GitHub’s official status page at www.githubstatus.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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