High latency on webhook API requests
Severity: Major
Category: Misconfiguration
Service: GitHub
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Overview
High latency on webhook API requests between February 26, 2026 UTC and February 27, 2026 UTC, with 0.82% of requests taking longer than 3s and 0.004% resulting in a 500 error response.
Impact
0.82% of requests took longer than 3s and 0.004% resulted in a 500 error response
Trigger
Noisy neighbor effect due to requests to a specific webhook generating excessive load on the API
Detection
Monitors caught the impact on the individual backing data source
Resolution
Traffic from the specific hook decreased, and a rate limiter was added for the webhooks API
Root Cause
Noisy neighbor effect due to requests to a specific webhook generating excessive load on the API