Incident with Pull Requests: High percentage of 500s

At a glance · GitHub's status

ResolvedLasted 22 h 5 min

First posted
on GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status
Ended
· marked resolved
Affects
GitHub Enterprise Cloud Japan
Edited
Not since we first saw it
Source
GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status · checked 1 min ago

In short

GitHub reported a partial outage affecting GitHub Enterprise Cloud Japan, starting 15:05 UTC on 31 Mar. GitHub marked it resolved at 13:11 UTC on 1 Apr after 22 h 5 min. GitHub has since published a post-incident report.

GitHub says

GitHub's latest update, , in short excerpts.

On Monday March 31st, 2026, between 13:53 UTC and 21:23 UTC the Pull Requests service experienced elevated latency and failures.

GitHub,

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Timeline

Times in UTC, GitHub's own where it gives them.

  1. 31 Mar

    GitHubFirst public postFrom GitHub's own incident history, before our archive started.

  2. 1 Apr+22 h 6 min

    GitHubResolved

What GitHub changed

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  1. First version we captured ·

    As first seen: postmortem · 1 service
    Status
    postmortem
    Services
    GitHub Enterprise Cloud Japan

    Seen by us · GitHub's timestamp · GitHub's page

Affected services

Official updates

Posted by GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status, newest first. The newest are quoted in their first sentence; the full text of each is on GitHub's page.

  1. Post-incident report ·

    On Monday March 31st, 2026, between 13:53 UTC and 21:23 UTC the Pull Requests service experienced elevated latency and failures.

  2. Resolved ·

    This incident was resolved on Mar 31, 2026 but unintentionally reopened.

  3. Investigating ·

    The degradation has been mitigated.

  4. Investigating ·

    The degradation has been mitigated.

  5. Investigating ·

    The degradation has been mitigated.

  6. Resolved ·

    This incident has been resolved.

  7. Investigating ·

    The degradation affecting Pull Requests has been mitigated.

  8. Investigating ·

    We continue to see a small subset of repositories experiencing timeouts and elevated latency in Pull Requests, affecting under 1% of requests.

  9. Investigating ·

    Error rates remain elevated across multiple pull request endpoints.

  10. Investigating ·

    We continue to experience elevated error rates affecting Pull Requests.

  11. Investigating ·

    We identified an issue causing increased errors when accessing Pull Requests.

Show 5 earlier updates
  1. Investigating ·

  2. Investigating ·

  3. Investigating ·

  4. Investigating ·

  5. Investigating ·

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