Incident With Webhooks

Severity: Minor
Category: Change Process
Service: GitHub

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Overview

Webhooks service was degraded and delivered webhook payloads with missing installation information between 11:35 UTC and 19:20 UTC on June 17, 2026, impacting 11.3% of deliveries and affecting multiple events.

Impact

11.3% of webhook deliveries were impacted, with customers relying on the installation field for authentication or routing unable to process affected webhooks

Trigger

Defect in a new delivery code path that failed to include installation data in webhook payloads

Detection

Not explicitly stated

Resolution

Mitigated by disabling the feature flag controlling the new code path

Root Cause

Defect in a new delivery code path