Pull Requests and Issues unavailable for signed-out users

Affected components

Update timeline

1. resolvedJun 8, 2026, 08:36 AM

   On June 8, 2026, between approximately 06:30 UTC and 08:36 UTC, signed-out users experienced sustained elevated HTTP 504 errors when accessing Pull Requests, Issues, releases, patch diffs, and other related GitHub.com pages. During the incident, approximately 17% of unauthenticated requests to the affected GitHub.com endpoints returned gateway timeout errors, peaking at roughly 34% of requests at around 06:50 UTC. Some GitHub Actions workflows were also affected when they depended on release dow

2. monitoringJun 8, 2026, 08:35 AM

   The degradation affecting Actions, Issues and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

3. investigatingJun 8, 2026, 08:27 AM

   Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

4. investigatingJun 8, 2026, 08:13 AM

   Following investigation, we are seeing that impact is limited to unauthenticated users when accessing Pull Requests, Issues, or Actions. Our team continues to work towards mitigation with more updates to follow as we have them.

5. investigatingJun 8, 2026, 07:32 AM

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

6. investigatingJun 8, 2026, 07:31 AM

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

7. investigatingJun 8, 2026, 07:14 AM

   Issues is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

8. investigatingJun 8, 2026, 07:11 AM

   We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.