GitHub Outage: Pull Requests and Issues Hit by Database Index Bug
Wednesday, August 12: GitHub, Incident with Pull Requests and Issues
On August 12, 2026, GitHub experienced an incident affecting Pull Requests, Issues, and Search. The root cause was a database index hint referencing an index removed by a recent migration, leading to query failures and 500 errors for some users. GitHub disabled the problematic configuration and saw recovery, but continued monitoring to ensure full resolution.
A database index hint was referencing an index that had been removed by a recent migration, causing query failures for some users.
- JohnMakin
2-3 9's of availability on most services shown on their status page (and these are always generous). For a platform that wants to be the industry standard CI/CD platform, there is no way you can justify that.
- floppydive
The incident is already superseded.. Or maybe they fixed it by shutting down all web gateways..
- hdgvhicv
“You need to use cloud services because the uptime can’t be matched if you run it yourself”
I mean it’s true, but not in a good way.