# GitHub outage on 13 November 2026

> 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.

- Service: [GitHub](https://stackpulse.app/services/github.md)
- Severity: major_outage
- Title on the status page: Incident with Pull Requests
- Started: 2026-11-13 15:47 UTC
- Ended: 2026-11-13 18:32 UTC
- Lasted: 2 h 44 min
- Incident open on the status page: 15:47–18:29 UTC
- The status page's incident: https://stspg.io/qzj7qjdcr8jc
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/github/outages/2026-11-13-1547

## What broke when (UTC)

| Component | Status | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pull Requests | partial outage | 2026-11-13 15:47 | 2026-11-13 16:09 |
| Pull Requests | degraded performance | 2026-11-13 16:09 | 2026-11-13 17:28 |

## At the same time

- [AccuLynx](https://stackpulse.app/services/acculynx.md): major_outage from 2026-11-13 16:38 UTC

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

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