DEV-TOOLSApril 27, 20261 min read6 views

GitHub is having issues now

GitHub is experiencing a widespread service disruption affecting Pull Requests, Issues, and Actions due to infrastructure connectivity issues. Engineers are currently investigating the root cause related to Elasticsearch.

Update - Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

27, 2026 - 18:19 UTC

Update - We're continuing to see connectivity issues reaching elasticsearch. Impact on downstream services will be intermittent as we find the root cause

27, 2026 - 18:17 UTC

Update - Users are experiencing intermittent failures to view issues, pull requests, projects and Actions workflow runs.

We are still investigating and attempting mitigations. We will provide further updates.

27, 2026 - 17:35 UTC

Update - Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

27, 2026 - 16:53 UTC

Update - Packages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

27, 2026 - 16:39 UTC

Update - Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

27, 2026 - 16:36 UTC

Update - Customers across GitHub are experiencing failures with searches. Examples include: workflow run failures, projects failing to load, and timed out search requests. This is due to an ongoing infrastructure issue that we have been investigating.

27, 2026 - 16:33 UTC

Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

27, 2026 - 16:31 UTC

Source: Hacker News

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