# GitHub outage on 7 October 2026

> 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.

- Service: [GitHub](https://stackpulse.app/services/github.md)
- Severity: critical
- Title on the status page: Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests
- Started: 2026-10-07 17:18 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-07 18:06 UTC
- Lasted: 49 min
- Incident open on the status page: 17:17–18:04 UTC
- The status page's incident: https://stspg.io/4p8x0jnnsx7m
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/github/outages/2026-10-07-1718

## At the same time

- [OpenAI](https://stackpulse.app/services/openai.md): issue from 2026-10-07 16:31 UTC
- [GitLab](https://stackpulse.app/services/gitlab.md): issue from 2026-10-07 16:53 UTC

Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

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