GitHub outage on 13 November 2026
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“Incident with Pull Requests”
On 13 November, GitHub had a major outage affecting Pull Requests, during which some attempts to merge timed out. The incident ran from 15:47 to 18:32 UTC (2 h 44 min), but the status page reported the degradation as mitigated at 17:28. According to the status page, the problem initially affected 3% of merge requests and fell to about 1% after mitigating action at 16:12. AccuLynx also reported a partial system outage starting at 16:38 UTC the same day.
GitHub’s own incident page ↗- When
- 15:47–18:32 UTC
- How long
- 2 h 44 min
- Incident open on its page
- 15:47–18:29 UTC
- Components affected
- 1
- GitHub, 30 days before
- 13 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
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Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- Pull Requests: partial outage
- Pull Requests: degraded performance
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Pull Requests: 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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