Disruption with some GitHub services

Severity: MajorCategory: NetworkService: GitHub
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Overview
GitHub services experienced a networking event that disrupted connectivity to their search infrastructure, impacting about 25% of search queries and indexing attempts. Searches for PRs, Issues, Actions workflow runs, Packages, Releases, and other products were impacted, resulting in failed requests or stale data.
Impact
About 25% of search queries and indexing attempts were impacted, resulting in failed requests or stale data.
Trigger
A networking event that disrupted connectivity to GitHub's search infrastructure
Detection
The incident was detected through degraded performance reported across multiple GitHub services including Issues, Pull Requests, and Actions.
Resolution
The connectivity issue self-resolved after 90 minutes. The backlog of indexing jobs was fully processed and saw recovery soon after, and queries to all indexes also saw an immediate return to normal throughput.
Root Cause
A networking event disrupted connectivity to GitHub's search infrastructure. The root cause is under investigation with their cloud provider.
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