GitHub outage on 21 October 2026
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“Delays for Pull Requests and Webhook deliveries”
GitHub had delays to pull request updates, webhook deliveries, Actions workflow status updates and audit log events on 21 October, with the incident open on its status page from 14:52 to 19:22 UTC (4 h 28 min). The status page's updates show pull requests recovering by 16:33 and Actions and webhooks by 16:57, while audit log delays of up to 110 minutes continued to decrease until resolution; the status page said increased load on its event streaming platform was contributing to hotspots. Coinbase, MyAnimeList, Musixmatch, OpenAI and Jira also reported problems at the same time.
GitHub’s own incident page ↗- When
- 14:55–19:23 UTC
- How long
- 4 h 28 min
- Incident open on its page
- 14:52–19:22 UTC
- Components affected
- 3
- GitHub, 30 days before
- 7 other outages
What broke when
From GitHub’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 537 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- Webhooks: degraded performance
- Pull Requests: degraded performance
- Actions: degraded performance
- Pull Requests: back to normal
- Webhooks: back to normal
- Actions: back to normal
- 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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