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GitHub status: access issues and outage reports

Problems detected

Users are reporting problems related to: website down, errors and sign in.

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GitHub is a company that provides hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, plus its own features.

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of GitHub reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

August 18: Problems at GitHub

GitHub is having issues since 10:40 PM EST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by GitHub users through our website.

  • 57% Website Down (57%)
  • 30% Errors (30%)
  • 14% Sign in (14%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Quito Sign in 17 hours ago
Junín Errors 17 hours ago
Guadalajara Errors 17 hours ago
Paris Website Down 17 hours ago
Quito Errors 17 hours ago
São Paulo Errors 17 hours ago
Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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GitHub Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • AmirKodro
    Amir Kodro (@AmirKodro) reported

    The latest GitHub issues got me seriously considering if we need to diversify our *** hosting, seems quite the risk to have that single point of failure. One solution could practically be to mirror across different providers. I know there are some upcoming alternatives as well like Cursor's *** hosting, and existing ones like Bitbucket etc., and there'll likely be more.

  • lordnewss
    Headlines (@lordnewss) reported

    NEWS: GitHub was down for most of the day - Engadget #news

  • Incognito_23445
    Álvaro Domínguez | Inversor (@Incognito_23445) reported

    @geoffreytung @VJNCapital Corporate contracts aren’t my argument. Azure, Windows, Office 365, GitHub, AI infrastructure and massive R&D spending are. Xbox being behind PlayStation in some areas doesn’t make Microsoft technologically inferior as a whole. That’s a category error.

  • james_dombro
    James Dombro (@james_dombro) reported

    @thsottiaux Fix being able to create new repos and projects from mobile and sync to GitHub. Why do I have to do this all from desktop??

  • slightlycode
    marais (@slightlycode) reported

    @blackgirlbytes When GitHub is down, how do folk use Entire when it's auth is GitHub gated?

  • pavelhegler
    Pavel Hegler (@pavelhegler) reported

    @mattyp Insane launch strategy - bring GitHub down then give everyone a replacement - if pain does not exist create it

  • mindacuity_ai
    UK (@mindacuity_ai) reported

    Already have GitHub repos? Sync them. Changes go both ways in real time. GitHub stays your source of truth but everything runs inside Cursor. Vercel, Depot, and Buildkite integrations are already live. Every PR gets a preview deployment. Cursor is no longer an AI code editor. It's becoming the full developer platform write, host, review, deploy. All in one place. The timing here is not a coincidence. When your infrastructure goes down 5 times in a month, people start looking for alternatives.

  • kserrec
    Kyle Serrecchia (@kserrec) reported

    @codyogden Used bitbucket for years at my job until we switched to GitHub a year or two ago. Never had problems with it. Don’t know why we switched.

  • Mad_Mage_Dev
    Mad-Mage (@Mad_Mage_Dev) reported

    You can’t, GitHub is down.

  • eshiler
    Eric Hiler (@eshiler) reported

    @bsniz GitHub: /goes down Cursor: Remember that announcement about our code repo service… you’re never going to believe this… we’re launching today!

  • anirudhvarma_12
    Anirudh Varma (@anirudhvarma_12) reported

    Hey @github , the payment button seems to be broken for the last 2-3 days too. The "Save Payment Information" button is just a dead click.

  • pathak_hemanta
    Hemanta Pathak (@pathak_hemanta) reported

    Is there a correlation between GitHub down & Origin promotion

  • algorycofficial
    ALGORYC (@algorycofficial) reported

    Cursor's Origin launched hours before GitHub's own outage that day, the timing looks perfect but wasn't planned. The bigger question nobody's asking yet: it's on by default for paid users, and Cursor hasn't published its data terms for hosted code. GitHub's reliability problem is real, but "who's actually holding your code now" matters more than uptime numbers. #Cursor #GitHub #DevTools @cursor_ai

  • MartinSzerment
    Martin Szerment | Practical AI (@MartinSzerment) reported

    @heyshrutimishra 7.5h is a stretch, yesterday's outage was actually 3h19min (though it's the 13th GitHub incident this August alone, so I get the mix up). What's actually wild is Microsoft's been quietly buying spare capacity from AWS since June because Azure can't keep up with AI traffic. Cursor just walked through an open door.

  • woodywoodsta
    Sean Wood (@woodywoodsta) reported

    @njpatel It’s terrible. I’d take forced “touching grass” breaks with GitHub any day.

  • junaidhashmi07
    Junaid (@junaidhashmi07) reported

    @ayaaninthebay @github took itself down to prevent users migrating repos to cursor's origin.. smart move lol

  • OffensiveLab
    Offensive Lab (@OffensiveLab) reported

    The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. As of writing, the GitHub project has more than 43,500 stars and has been forked over 7,900 times. The vulnerability in question relates to CVE-2025-62593 (CVSS score: 9.4), which can result in remote code execution via web browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari by means of a DNS rebinding attack. "Due to the longstanding decision by the Ray Development team to not implement any sort of authentication on critical endpoints, like the /api/jobs & /api/job_agent/jobs/ has once again led to a severe vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code against Ray," according to an advisory shared by Ray maintainers in November 2025. "This time in a development context via the browsers Firefox and Safari." Cybersecurity The issue, at its core, stems from insufficient controls against browser-based attacks, specifically scenarios where the User-Agent header can be modified. "Combined with a DNS rebinding attack against the browser, and this vulnerability is exploitable against a developer running Ray who inadvertently visits a malicious website, or is served a malicious advertisement," the project maintainers added. It's worth noting that the defect primarily impacts developers running development/testing environments with Ray. Should a targeted victim fall prey to a phishing attack, or be served a malicious ad, it can lead to the execution of arbitrary shell code on their machine. The project maintainers also noted that the attack can also be extended to attack network-adjacent instances of Ray by leveraging the browser as a confused deputy intermediary to target Ray instances running inside a private corporate network.

  • dysinger
    @_@ (@dysinger) reported

    @SledgeDev Linus designed *** to be resilient in the face of GitHub being down constantly. We will be OK.

  • RemzTheAwesome
    Remz 🇱🇨 (@RemzTheAwesome) reported

    I didn't have any issues pushing work to GitHub today despite all the reports of GitHub being down :/

  • aneki
    Josh Boys (@aneki) reported

    @iamdavidhill Yeah it was perfectly timed to get the email saying I am off the Cursor Origin waitlist just as I was about to throw my laptop because of GitHub being down while trying to release. Also got notified about the Netlify work and at least 1 other project...

  • chargrnmn
    Charlie Greenman (@chargrnmn) reported

    Gitea on vps where I’m headed. Really didn’t think about it before, but now I am. It’s that token usage increasingly constrained and I want to just pour every last cent into Ai token usage. I’ve already migrated off of cloud and auth platforms, as well as telemetry and data platforms. So this kind of the final frontier. Also five things: 1. Open source kind of dead now. No need to be on github 2. Networking on github kind of dead 3. With AI I can get my gitea in VPs to be secure and run 6x faster for cheaper 4. Setup my own frontend easy 5. Setup my own AI custom workflows on my gitea. Eg telegram to codebases on VPs to run codegen(which you can do now but you have a VPS anyways at that point) So yeah it’s kind of sad how AI code gen just dominating everything but it’s how it is right now for me atleast. All coding platforms should head towards autonomy. If platform not offering autonomy in some way, will fall to wayside. Nothing you can offer versus me with open source and a coding agent and a cheap server. None of the old guard headed towards autonomy in time and now they’re all gone

  • shaneikennedy
    Shane Kennedy (@shaneikennedy) reported

    @olafurpg This! Everyone praised the launch timing but their CTA in the announcement, the GitHub sync, would have been broken?!

  • WarisHussain57
    Waris Hussain (@WarisHussain57) reported

    @darekgusto but but but....they had to time the launch with Github outage

  • dboskovic
    David Boskovic (@dboskovic) reported

    @samseely PR team: "pls guys pick a day when github is not down so we don't seem like ********" Marketing: "we shall try"

  • malakhovdm
    Dmitrii Malakhov (@malakhovdm) reported

    @alexcloudstar Wired my agent to do this on GitHub issues. First batch got zero replies because every message read templated. Had to make it quote the exact line that pissed them off before pitching.

  • paradoxbuilder
    Yuv (@paradoxbuilder) reported

    Github is down and suddenly every developer remembers they have a body and a window with sunlight coming through it.

  • UncaughtEx
    Void Pain (@UncaughtEx) reported

    shipping an alternative platform right in the middle of a github outage is either insane luck or elite tactical timing. either way, it worked.

  • _junaidkhalid1
    JK (@_junaidkhalid1) reported

    @jun_song Calling it now, half the people sharing this will not read the GitHub, and the other half will not run it. A fix only matters if it survives contact with a real use case, not a benchmark suite someone designed to make their model look good. --- Note: This message was transcribed using Contextli. Pardon any errors..

  • abhijeet_gautam
    Abhijeet Gautam (@abhijeet_gautam) reported

    @championswimmer It’s funny that this code hosting space is so vulnerable because the entire identity of these new “Github alternatives” is based on thr fact that GitHub has had outages very frequently in the past 2 years. So essentially, if Github solves their infra issues within the next 6 months, all these new companies would have no other option but to shut down.

  • udohjeremiah_
    Udoh Jeremiah (@udohjeremiah_) reported

    If someone genuinely solves the open-source funding problem alongside source control, that would be a serious GitHub alternative.