DEV TOOLS Signal 649 2 feeds carried it
GitHub incident brings 20% error rate to pull requests and issues
↗
Illustration only Photo by Lachlan Donald on Unsplash
GitHub is experiencing an incident with an approximate 20% error rate across pull requests, issues, and other features, with users reporting inability to load repos and merge PRs.
For engineers, this means PR workflows are disrupted and code review is blocked, while the status page initially showed all systems operational, making it an unreliable source during incidents. The global scope of the outage, with reports from India, Brazil, and Bulgaria, underscores the platform's central role in daily development.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
GitHub's status page initially reported all systems operational before updating with an incident of an approximate 20% error rate.
Users report being unable to load repository pages and seeing 'Merge status cannot be loaded' when attempting to merge pull requests.
The outage is affecting users in multiple regions, including India, Brazil, and Bulgaria, according to comments on Hacker News.
THE CLUSTER