Network graph outdated

[jupmorenor]

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Lately the network graph view is not showing the latest commits and branches in the repositories.

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[danielsabio]

Can you fix this now? It's been weeks months!!

[vraravam]

same here! This issue is getting so bad that I am even thinking whether to move to another hosted service or not.

[eduardkieserwork]

I can confirm, we have the same issue. Merges that we did yesterday still don't reflect in the network graph.

[NickersF]

Our main repo's network graph is stuck on the 14th! We pay for the account and this feature is expected to work.

[NickersF]

Update ~ 3 weeks later. It does update on some interval, but not when the page is reloaded.

[MasteraSnackin]

Yeah I'm seeing this too. Our network graph hasn't updated since the 14th either - pretty frustrating since we rely on it to track branch relationships.

This definitely looks like a backend issue on GitHub's side rather than something we can fix. The graph indexing service seems to be stuck and not picking up new commits/merges properly.

Unfortunately there's no repo setting or action we can take to force a refresh. I've tried pushing new commits and switching branches but nothing triggers an update.

Best bet is probably to:

1. Check https://www.githubstatus.com/ to see if there's any incident reported
2. If nothing's listed there, reach out to GitHub Support (contact link in the footer) and mention this discussion Network graph outdated #186919 so they can see multiple repos are affected

Hopefully they'll sort out the indexing issue soon, but until then we're kind of stuck waiting on their end.

[GAndrsn]

I'm seeing the same issue

[JRSeabird]

Seeing same issue.

[chengcli]

confirm

[rhodges]

Performed a large merge on this repo on Mar 5, 2026 from upstream (up to a commit from Jan 27th), and have added new commits to a branch, none of which is showing up yet on our network graph, but curiously IS showing on the upstream graph.

[rhodges]

6 days later: I can confirm that after a LONG loading session with the spinny wheel animation, I'm now seeing the up-to-date network graph.

[ktn001]

I'm seeing the same issue

[wmather]

They added this to it:

Personally, I want to check the network graph after every push to origin I or my team does

[lhoekstra]

Exactly! Mine currently says "Last updated about 7 hours ago.". I don't care what was committed 7+ hours ago. The network graph is useful to me for viewing commits, pushes, and merges being done in real time. It helps me easily view the latest status of each branch and maybe resolve a tricky merge here or there.

Removing real-time updates removes like 80% of the functionality to me...

[NickersF]

I agree. I don't know if the rationale is to save on compute costs, but at least give paying customers on-demand fetching of the data for that UI...

[bsinquefield]

I checked one of my network graphs, that is active with multiple developers working on it, and the time it was last updated was 8 days ago... Since then there has been dozens of commits that have not shown on there.

[chrisburnham]

We are also experiencing this across all of our repos, with varying degrees of how outdated each is. As others have pointed out its a bummer to not be able to view current status when complex branching is occurring. Even if a page request on that page doesn't trigger recalculating the graph, it should be something that should be request-able via the page. Really a huge downgrade of that feature, which is quite useful for enterprise accounts...

[jbeyer05]

This is complete BS from GitHub, whether you're on a paid account or a free account. I see delays of multiple days on various paid accounts that I'm associated. This feature is pointless if the graph can be days (or hours) out of date.
GitHub, get your act together!

[vraravam]

Definitely want to underscore this: GitHub, get your act together!