Incident with Issues
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Overview
On February 24, 2025, between 15:17 UTC and 17:08 UTC the GitHub Issues & Pull Requests services were degraded.
Impact
GitHub Issues & Pull Requests services were degraded by showing stale results on search powered pages such as /issues and /pulls, meaning the displayed results may not have included the most recent updates. Additional features that depend on search functionality may have served stale results during this incident. There was no increase in latency for any of the services depending on search.
Trigger
search powered pages such as /issues and /pulls
Detection
reports of degraded performance for Issues
Resolution
mitigated the incident by increasing the replica count for the workers that process background jobs related to search indexing.
Root Cause
identifying the root cause to avoid similar incidents in the future