Major outageGitHub ・ October 21, 2026
Delays for Pull Requests and Webhook deliveries
A record of the GitHub incident on October 21, 2026 (UTC): start time, duration and severity, plus current status, what to do, and alternatives.
Started
Oct 21, 2026, 02:52 PM UTC
Resolved
ongoing
Duration
5h 8m
Impact
Major outage
Other providers down at the same time
2 other incident(s) at different providers overlapped with this one. It may not have been limited to a single service — several providers were degraded at once.
- OpenAIElevated error rates for gpt-5.6-luna API requests
- CursorInvestigating service degradation
Derived from our own archive of official status pages across 13 providers. Items lasting more than 24 hours and unresolved items are excluded, as they would misrepresent the moment.
Current status
GitHub is operating normally now. This incident has been resolved.
See current GitHub status →What you can do during an outage
Source: GitHub's official status page.
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- Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull RequestsOctober 7, 2026