GitHub Pull Requests, Issues and Git Operations Hit by Degraded Performance
Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
GitHub is investigating degraded performance across Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests and Actions, according to a status page incident posted on November 4, 2026. Pull Requests and Actions are both reporting reduced availability while the company continues to investigate the cause. No root cause or resolution timeline has been given yet.
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests.
- gophigure
What I find problematic, especially for teams that rely on GitOps and GitHub being (relatively) stable, is the fact that GitHub's status page can't be relied on. You arrive at the conclusion, "this must be GitHub," but the status page rejects the notion, and so you go digging. That can lead to a lot of toil and wasted time, in addition to sideways looks paired with comments like, "but status shows green."
A sick person with symptoms is clearly sick, but sometimes they're asymptomatic. That's what the GitHub status page has become. When it's red and showing problems, you know you have problems. When it's all green? You know you MIGHT have problems.
That can make outages like this harder to triage, since reality is a black box.
- a-squirrel-comm
It looks like today there was maintenance scheduled to deprecate support for certain categories of SSH keys: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-22-security-improvemen...
> November 4, 2026: We’ll have a brownout of the removal of the ssh-rsa signature type (i.e., RSA keys using SHA-1) and the diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange algorithm.
I guess something went sideways.
- rarisma
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github has an outage
- eknkc
Our deploys are tied to GitHub actions and it is becoming a liability at this point. What alternatives do people use? I mean for FOSS there are some decent stuff but we need a reliable provider for private repos.
- giwook
It’s kinda funny that GitHub having issues continues to make HN front page.
Perhaps these types of posts should just be pinned at this point.
- thesdev
Finally a GitHub outage during European workday. Yaaay.
- cashbreaker
I was thinking I'm going crazy with me ssh keys not working on both of my machines.
- sognetic
Can't even pull no more using my key. That's a new low, I'm used to the website being janky nowadays but this is seriously essential