Delays in commit processing

lowGitHubSep 1, 2026 15:00Duration: 1h 1m

apicapacity

Capacity IssueAPI Issue

Summary

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Sep 1, 2026 15:00

[investigating] We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests

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+0m

Sep 1, 2026 15:00

[investigating] Diffs in the PR view may be stale for several minutes. We are investigating and scaling up resources.

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+1h

Sep 1, 2026 16:00

[investigating] Time to update pull request diffs have improved to normal thresholds.

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+1m

Sep 1, 2026 16:01

[resolved] This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

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Lessons Learned

⚠GitHub has experienced 148 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api, capacity have occurred 992 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Capacity Issue, API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.