GitHub was down for most of the day

If you heard lots of grumbling in coffee shops today, GitHub's outage may be why.

GitHub outage: Web, API traffic hit by high error rates; downloads see 50% failures

The incident began at around 1:40 pm UTC on August 17 when GitHub said it was investigating reports of impacted performance across some services. The disruption subsequently spread to Pull Requests, ...

GitHub outage cause: Developer platform reports 'high error rates' and API problems; Microsoft says 'we are currently'

The developer platform GitHub has experienced downtime since approximately 9:40 AM ET. According to the platform's status page, there are multiple issues ...

GitHub Down: Pull Requests, Issues, Actions And Copilot Hit By Major Outage Today

GitHub is facing a significant outage on August 17, 2026, with multiple core services degraded since around 7:10 PM IST. The company has confirmed elevated error rates across its platform and is ...
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GitHub down in major worldwide outage, thousands of developers hit

GitHub says a major outage disrupts services worldwide, with Copilot and core developer tools hit as the platform works to restore service.

GitHub restores services after nearly 8-hour outage disrupts Actions, APIs, PRs and Copilot

Authentication issues lingered as GitHub worked through a sprawling disruption that affected key developer services and enterprise workflows across its platform.

Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race

Cursor launched Origin, a new AI-native code hosting platform, as a major GitHub outage exposed growing risks for engineering teams and intensified the battle over code repositories, AI agents, and ...