Degraded Performance in Webhooks API and UI, Pull Requests
Incident
Report for GitHub
Resolved
On February 9, 2026, between 07:05 UTC and 11:26 UTC, GitHub experienced intermittent degradation across Issues, Pull Requests, Webhooks, Actions, and Git operations. Approximately every 30 minutes, users encountered brief periods of elevated errors and timeouts lasting roughly 15 seconds each. During the incident window, approximately 1–2% of requests were impacted across these services, with Git operations experiencing up to 7% error rates during individual spikes. GitHub Actions saw up to 2% of workflow runs delayed by a median of approximately 7 minutes due to backups created during these periods.
This was due to multiple resource-intensive workloads running simultaneously, which caused intermittent processing delays on the data storage layer. We mitigated the incident by scaling storage to a larger compute capacity, which resolved the processing delays.
We are working to improve detection of resource-intensive queries, identify changes in load patterns, and enhance our monitoring to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of issues like this one in the future.
This was due to multiple resource-intensive workloads running simultaneously, which caused intermittent processing delays on the data storage layer. We mitigated the incident by scaling storage to a larger compute capacity, which resolved the processing delays.
We are working to improve detection of resource-intensive queries, identify changes in load patterns, and enhance our monitoring to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of issues like this one in the future.
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Actions is operating normally.
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Issues is operating normally.
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Webhooks is operating normally.
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Pull Requests is operating normally.
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We have identified a faulty infrastructure component and have failed over to a healthy instance. We are continuing to monitor the system for recovery.
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Git Operations is operating normally.
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We are continuing to investigate intermittent elevated timeouts across the service.
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Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
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We are continuing to investigate intermittent elevated timeouts across the service.
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We are continuing to investigate intermittent elevated timeouts across the service. Current impact is estimated around 1% or less of requests.
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Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
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We are continuing to investigate intermittent elevated timeouts.
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We are investigating intermittent latency and errors with Webhooks API, Webhooks UI, and PRs. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation.
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Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests and Webhooks
This incident affected: Git Operations, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests, and Actions.
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