Incident with Webhooks

lowGitHubMar 6, 2026 16:58Duration: 6h 30m
apiauthenticationdeploymentconfiguration
Configuration ErrorDeployment FailureAuthentication IssueAPI Issue

Summary

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Mar 6, 2026 16:58

[investigating] We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Webhooks

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+14m
Mar 6, 2026 17:12

[investigating] We are investigating an issue affecting a subset of customers experiencing errors when viewing webhook delivery histories and retrying webhook deliveries. UI and webhook API is impacted. Engineers have identified the cause and are actively working on mitigation.

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+7m
Mar 6, 2026 17:19

[investigating] This problem is impacting less than 1% of UI and webhook API calls.

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+24m
Mar 6, 2026 17:43

[investigating] Our engineers have identified the root cause and are actively implementing mitigations to restore full service.

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+24m
Mar 6, 2026 18:07

[investigating] We continue working on mitigations to restore full service.

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+31m
Mar 6, 2026 18:39

[investigating] We continue working on mitigations to restore service.

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+28m
Mar 6, 2026 19:07

[investigating] We continue working on mitigations to restore service.

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+32m
Mar 6, 2026 19:39

[investigating] We continue working on mitigations to restore service.

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+39m
Mar 6, 2026 20:18

[investigating] We have deployed a fix for the issue causing some users to experience intermittent failures when accessing the Webhooks API and configuration pages. We are monitoring to confirm full recovery.

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+1h 17m
Mar 6, 2026 21:34

[investigating] The previous mitigation did not resolve the issue. We are investigating further. The affected endpoint is the webhook deliveries API (https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/webhooks?apiVersion=2022-11-28#list-deliveries-for-a-repository-webhook) and its organization and integration variants. Overall impact remains low, with under 1% of requests failing for a subset of customers.

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+1h
Mar 6, 2026 22:35

[investigating] We are preparing a new mitigation for the issue affecting the webhook deliveries API (https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/webhooks?apiVersion=2022-11-28#list-deliveries-for-a-repository-webhook) and its organization and integration variants. Overall impact remains low, with under 1% of requests failing for a subset of customers.

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+52m
Mar 6, 2026 23:26

[investigating] We have deployed a fix and are observing a full recovery. The affected endpoint was the webhook deliveries API (https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/webhooks?apiVersion=2022-11-28#list-deliveries-for-a-repository-webhook) and its organization and integration variants. We will continue monitoring to confirm stability.

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+1m
Mar 6, 2026 23:28

[investigating] Webhooks is operating normally.

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+0m
Mar 6, 2026 23:28

[resolved] This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

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+64h 22m
Mar 9, 2026 15:50

[investigating] We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Webhooks

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+6m
Mar 9, 2026 15:56

[investigating] We are experiencing latency on the API and UI endpoints. We are working to resolve the issue.

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+1h 8m
Mar 9, 2026 17:03

[investigating] Webhooks is operating normally.

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+0m
Mar 9, 2026 17:03

[resolved] This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

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Lessons Learned

GitHub has experienced 39 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api, authentication, deployment, configuration have occurred 220 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Configuration Error, Deployment Failure, Authentication Issue, API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.