GitHub Services Disrupted: Pull Requests Affected in Latest Outage

GitHub users experienced service disruptions today as the platform encountered issues affecting multiple services, with Pull Requests functionality showing degraded performance. The incident, which began approximately 53 minutes ago, has been marked as resolved by GitHub's status page.

The disruption was first reported at 15:07 UTC when GitHub acknowledged investigating "reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services." Within minutes, users began experiencing intermittent timeouts on various pages, prompting the platform to provide regular updates on their status page.

By 15:08 UTC, GitHub confirmed they were "seeing intermittent timeouts on some pages and are investigating." The situation escalated when, 51 minutes into the incident, the status page specifically noted that "Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance."

GitHub's engineering team worked to identify the root cause, with updates at 15:47 UTC stating they "believe we have found the cause of the problem and are working on mitigation." The company then deployed a fix at 15:51 UTC, noting they "have deployed a mitigation for the issue and are observing what we believe is the start of recovery."

Recovery was confirmed at 15:58 UTC when GitHub announced that "Pull Requests is operating normally." The incident was officially marked as resolved shortly after, with GitHub thanking users for their patience and promising a detailed root cause analysis once available.

This disruption comes at a time when GitHub continues to be the backbone for millions of developers worldwide, hosting over 100 million repositories and serving as the primary platform for open-source collaboration. While brief, such outages highlight the critical nature of version control systems in modern software development workflows.

GitHub, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for $7.5 billion, has maintained a generally strong uptime record, though incidents like this serve as reminders of the complexities involved in maintaining infrastructure at this scale. The platform's status page, powered by Atlassian Statuspage, provides transparency during such events, allowing developers to stay informed about service availability.

For developers who rely on GitHub for their daily workflows, service disruptions can impact productivity, particularly when core features like Pull Requests are affected. The quick resolution and transparent communication from GitHub's team helped minimize the impact on the broader developer community.