Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

GitHub experienced a brief incident on October 26th, 2023, affecting Actions, Pull Requests, and Issues. The issue was reported at 17:14 UTC and lasted for approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes. During this time, users may have experienced errors when attempting to create, update, or view Actions, Pull Requests, or Issues. The incident was resolved at 19:00 UTC. The cause of the issue was a 'cascading failure' in the GitHub API, which was quickly identified and addressed by the GitHub engineering team. The company apologized for the inconvenience caused to its users.