Incident with Issues and Pull Requests

Severity: Major
Category: Scalability
Service: GitHub

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Overview

Issues and Pull Requests search indexing service was degraded, causing search results to contain stale data up to 3 minutes old for roughly 1.3 million issues and pull requests.

Impact

1.3 million issues and pull requests had stale data up to 3 minutes old

Trigger

Resource contention caused by a running transition

Detection

Investigation of reports of degraded performance

Resolution

Cancelling the running transition

Root Cause

Resource contention caused by a running transition