Incident with Webhooks

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1. 14:45 UTC Statusseite von GitHub · Reported Incident with Webhooks
2. 14:45 UTC Statusseite von GitHub · Wird untersucht We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Webhooks
3. 14:46 UTC Statusseite von GitHub · Wird untersucht Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
4. 14:46 UTC Statusseite von GitHub · Wird untersucht Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
5. 14:46 UTC Statusseite von GitHub · Wird untersucht Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
6. 14:56 UTC Statusseite von GitHub · Wird untersucht Packages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
7. 14:58 UTC Statusseite von GitHub · Wird untersucht We are currently investigating a brief degradation of service for Git operations (specifically pushes), issues, pull requests, package registry, and webhooks between 14:32 and 14:46 UTC. We have identified the source of the degradation and are investigating mitigation strategies to prevent recurrence.
8. 15:33 UTC Statusseite von GitHub · Wird beobachtet The degradation affecting Git Operations, Issues, Packages, Pull Requests and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
9. 15:33 UTC Statusseite von GitHub · Wird beobachtet We have temporarily disabled a background job which caused the impact. At this time the impact is fully mitigated.
10. 15:36 UTC Statusseite von GitHub · Behoben Between 14:24 and 14:53 UTC on 13 August 2026, a routine background job to delete an organization overwhelmed a key shared database, causing multiple GitHub services to briefly return elevated errors and slower responses. Most affected was the webhook management API, with smaller impact to Git operations, pull requests, issues, packages, sign-in, and Copilot. Impact cleared on its own at about 14:53 UTC once the job finished; we resolved the incident at 15:36 UTC. Affected users may have experienced a brief increase in errors and slower responses, primarily when creating, listing, or…