SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2026|No. 18237
Technology · Incident

GitHub Experiences Service Disruptions Affecting Pull Requests and Issues

GitHub experienced significant disruptions impacting pull requests, issues, and search functionalities, with users reporting 500 errors.

A screenshot of the GitHub status page indicating an ongoing incident.
A screenshot of the GitHub status page indicating an ongoing incident. · Photo by David Pupăză on Unsplash
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Incident with Pull Requests and Issues

We identified the source of errors affecting Pull Requests, Issues, and Search on GitHub.com and have applied a mitigation. A database index hint was referencing an index that had been removed by a recent migration, causing query failures for some users. We disabled the problematic configuration and are seeing recovery across affected services. We are continuing to monitor to confirm full resolution.

The degradation affecting Issues and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

We are investigating reports of errors affecting Pull Requests and Issues on GitHub.com. Some users may encounter 500 errors when loading pull request and issue pages. Our engineering teams are actively investigating the root cause, which appears to be related to a database infrastructure issue. We will provide an update as soon as we have more information.

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

This incident affects: Issues and Pull Requests.

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