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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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 17: Problems at GitHub
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by GitHub users through our website.
- Website Down (57%)
- Errors (30%)
- Sign in (14%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 1 hour ago |
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Errors | 1 hour ago |
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Website Down | 2 hours ago |
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Errors | 2 hours ago |
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GitHub Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Taseed (@TaseedMustafa) reportedyo gng why is GitHub down?
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TeraVex (@TeraVex) reportedWorking on secret project and github down what else am i gonna do today
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akshay oppiliappan (@oppiliappa44278) reported@pyaaraacetamol how is blacksmith ci going to clone your codebase if github is down :p
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cody (@_Coday_) reportedGitHub being down on a Monday is such a Monday thing to happen (it happens almost every day but it makes Monday feel more like Monday)
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V (@madewithv) reported@ericzakariasson @andreihasna @github What r u guys waiting for? Imagine Origin released when Github still broken, million of users might switch without being asked
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WENE (@omijagun) reportedA GitHub outage doesn’t just break GitHub. It can break deployments, CI/CD pipelines, packages, APIs, and entire developer workflows. The internet is far more interconnected than most people realize.
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M.A.D (@MichealCodes) reportedGitHub is having issues today
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PiusSunday (@piussunday_dev) reportedGitHub PR ops are down! Oops!
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Mo (@OwnFoundations) reportedGitHub sucks! No week without big problems. We need an alternative for the agentic era asap!
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Manav Rao (@HoomanInTheLoop) reported@bhaumikk9 @youareweeye Thanks for the feedback! Sonnet does miss minor details like this at time. Alas github is down, unable to push the fix. However the footer has the correct email address in case you want to send those gifts anyways :)
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Rexa DB (@RexaDB) reportedAnd Github is down....
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Will Sidebottom (@wmksidebottom) reportedUPDATE: GitHub is still down. How much LLM compute are they burning through to solve the problem, I wonder?
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Edward Woodcock (@remotecto) reportedI am speculating here, but I think it's a reasonable guess that @github accidentally blasted out their production db (poss with LLM). I noticed 500 errors became 404 errors - which to me suggests a streaming database restore was required, and stuff 404s until all caught up.
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Prasenjit (@prasenx) reportedhow is github going down this often now
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Sam (@rss890) reportedDidn't know GitHub was down lol wtf
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Zinger (@thisiszinger) reported@chrismaddern @cursor_ai I suspect this is many people rn haha Cursor should runs ads on "GitHub down" searches
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Artificial Guy / João Vitor A. (@artificialguybr) reportedSir, I can't work today, github is down
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Ashutosh Rana ⛓️ (@ashutoshrana_20) reported@vivek_naskar Bro, I can't even login into my GitHub Copilot and tomorrow is code commit. I need to finish my feature asap.
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Travis Ennis (@travisennis) reported@ibuildthecloud up until recently I was only using github to host code, but then I got the bright idea to use them for issues, ci/cd, etc. I wish I had left well-enough alone.
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ananimatorman (@ananimatorman) reported@alexanderlee314 Pull Requests really were degraded today. GitHub also reported ~20% errors across web and API traffic. “I just wanna see my PRs” turned into an availability problem.
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mahad (@skyfallpowered) reportedIt's so disappointing how GitHub is down every other day now! Tangled looks more and more enticing every day...
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Niraj (@nirajxdev) reported@themishra4402 GitHub is down
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Anthony Maio (@AnthonyMaio) reportedSpeculation: @github worldwide outage will be revealed to be an AI related incident.
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W. (@wac4s) reportedis github down? 😓
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Muzaffer Kal @🏡 🦆⏩ (@MuzafferKal_) reported@github is down again. I hate that purple unicorn.
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0.005 Seconds (3/694) (@seconds_0) reportedgithub should reset my actions budget for every outage
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tenso (@distributedkv) reportedgitHub, but every repo is a torrent and every clone becomes a peer github (or competitor) doing this will never go down and i can die on this hill
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Mohan Radhakrishnan (@r_mohan) reportedWe are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync are also impacted.Aug 17, 2026 - #Github
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Irushi (@Im_IrushiK) reportedGitHub has been down for over an hour. The irony of the platform where the world’s developers store their code having trouble running its own code 😭 Looks like they vibe coded GitHub with Copilot. LOL
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Blockchain Daily News (@blckchaindaily) reported🚨 GITHUB SAYS IT IS CURRENTLY PERFORMING MITIGATIONS TO FIX SITE OUTAGES