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 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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Jenkins GitHub Webhook build trigger by example

A practical walkthrough for replacing GitHub password authentication with a personal access token for repository operations. Follow practical Git commands for cloning a repository or initializing an ...

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 Down: Microsoft-Owned Platform Hit By Big Outage Worldwide, Services Now Recovering

GitHub is addressing a significant outage that impacted its website and various services like API, Actions, and Pull Requests, affecting developers globally.

Microsoft confirms GitHub outage: Here’s what all is affected

GitHub is facing a widespread outage affecting core developer services, authentication, downloads and Copilot, while Amazon continues to overhaul its AI strategy around frontier-model research.