October 21 Incident Report

At 10:52 pm Sunday UTC, GitHub.com experienced a network partition and subsequent database failure, affecting several services and causing inconsistent information to appear on its website. To protect data integrity, GitHub paused webhook events and other internal processing systems. While the incident led to outdated information being displayed, no data was lost, and the primary impact was limited to website metadata stored in MySQL databases, such as issues and pull requests. Git repository data remained unaffected and accessible throughout the incident. GitHub is working to determine a recovery timeline and will provide updates via their status page, ensuring users are informed as the situation progresses.