GitHub Investigating Incident With Actions Pull Requests and Issues

GitHub is reporting an active service incident on its official status page.

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Editorial Team

Updated October 12, 2026Oct 12, 2026

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Updated 8:33 a.m. Eastern on October 12, 2026

GitHub says it is investigating reports of degraded performance affecting Actions, Issues and Pull Requests, and the incident remains under investigation.

What is affected

Users may experience issues loading the Actions tab UI, interacting with the Checks API, queueing new Actions runs, creating and updating issues, and requesting PR reviews, including via REST and GraphQL APIs.

Official update timeline

8:21 a.m. Eastern on October 12, 2026, marked Investigating

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Issues and Pull Requests

8:33 a.m. Eastern on October 12, 2026, marked Investigating

Users may experience issues loading the Actions tab UI, interacting with the Checks API, queueing new Actions runs, creating and updating issues, and requesting PR reviews, including via REST and GraphQL APIs.

Read the official GitHub status page.

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