Disruption with some GitHub services
Feb 2, 17:41 UTCFeb 2, 18:46 UTC
Duration
1h 5m
Impact
Major
Root cause
Database
GitHub, 90 days
69 incidents
Affected
Not listed by the vendor.
Final update
From Jan 31, 2026 00:30 UTC to Feb 2, 2026 18:00 UTC Dependabot service was degraded and failed to create 10% of Automated Pull Requests. This was due to a cluster failover that connected to a read-only database. We mitigated the incident by pausing Dependabot queues until traffic was properly routed to healthy clusters. We’re working on identifying and rerunning all failed jobs during this time. We’re adding new monitors and alerts to reduce our time to detection and prevent this in the future.
Timeline
- Resolved · Feb 2, 18:46 UTC
From Jan 31, 2026 00:30 UTC to Feb 2, 2026 18:00 UTC Dependabot service was degraded and failed to create 10% of Automated Pull Requests. This was due to a cluster failover that connected to a read-only database. We mitigated the incident by pausing Dependabot queues until traffic was properly routed to healthy clusters. We’re working on identifying and rerunning all failed jobs during this time. We’re adding new monitors and alerts to reduce our time to detection and prevent this in the future.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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