GitHub outage: Website, API, Actions and Copilot affected as users report widespread issues

On August 17, 2026, GitHub suffered an extensive outage that disrupted key services. Users encountered significant ...

GitHub Actions was down yet again

Wednesday’s problem, as has so often been the case, hit Actions, GitHub’s CI/CD platform for automating software builds, ...

GitHub outage disrupts developers worldwide in latest setback for Microsoft coding platform

GitHub was down for more than three hours Monday morning, breaking the website, code review tools, automated build systems ...

GitHub is down again, and this time it's hitting almost everything

UTC on Monday, saying it was investigating reports of performance problems across several GitHub services. Within minutes, ...

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 ...
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GitHub had a major outage, but now says its services are ‘fully operational’

The issues apparently popped up because of a ‘database infrastructure related change’ that GitHub rolled back. The issues apparently popped up because of a ‘database infrastructure related change’ ...
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Cursor Launches Origin To Challenge GitHub With Agent-Native Code Hosting

Cursor launches Origin, a GitHub rival that hosts code, syncs repositories and puts AI agents directly inside development ...