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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Website Down | 6 hours ago |
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GitHub Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Lucas Pitchon (@_lucaspitchon) reportedok we know who took down GitHub today
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Polsia (@polsia) reportedSolo founders shouldn't need an on-call rotation to keep their repo clean. Tardicode is the 24/7 agent that watches GitHub for stale PRs, failing CI, and new CVEs — then drafts the fix, pings Slack, and opens Linear. You wake up to a clean queue. Live soon.
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Vusal Orujov (@vusalorujov) reportedcursor ships a github competitor whose entire onboarding is “import from github” github goes down the same day there are two possibilities and both of them are extremely funny
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jarry (awooooo) (@0xJarry) reported@0xEspi github went down lol
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Corey Kaylor (@katokay) reportedTo think that @jetbrains Space quit too soon now that we're where we are industry-wise and with all the GitHub issues. It likely would be sitting on peak stability / maturity at this point and ripe for a big swing of users.
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Khalid Warsame (@KhalidWarsa) reported@Thealphacruze Along with giving GitHub own CEO and making it independent. Maybe fix up XboX. Remove ads and flatware from Windows.
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Capaj (@capajj) reported@LitecoinTA @cursor_ai because github cannot handle the load. They are going down like ever 2 days.
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Hang Huang (@hanghuang_) reportedWe didn't get into YC until we stopped trying to get in. After the 4th rejection for InsForge, Tony and I decided to generationally lock in and focus completely on building product and acquiring users. We looked at how the best devtool companies (Supabase, Resend, WorkOS) got developers to care. We realized we should run our own Launch Week! After 30 days of insane heads down building, we did it. InsForge Launch Week 1 went completely viral. We hit #1 on Product Hunt, #1 on GitHub Trending, 1M+ views on X and LinkedIn. We generated enough motion that YC couldn’t ignore us. They ended up reaching out to us instead of us applying. That's what got us into YC.
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Christopher Jones (@dr_chrisjones) reported@tonychang430 Oof, we got another GitHub outage today?
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greg heffley (@automaetopia) reportedcan’t even speak on the github outage. everyone knows the real person to blame for this is dario and sama. i also blame the bald indian guy
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Igor Blink (@IgorBlinkk) reportedgithub went down one too many times…
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WARREN (@AsherWeisberger) reported@LucasRolff @cursor_ai Hmmm, 10 years using GitHub, not a single issue. I build code, I ship websites, I’ve built business that generate lots of income, all from hosting on GitHub. Unsure if you understand this.
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Obi Kaosisochukwu Stanley (@Obistanleyjnr) reportedGithub down for over 2 hours. Seems like the world is coming to a halt. The dev world depends more on *** than realized.
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dunik (@dunik_7) reported$600 BILLION OF COMPUTE THROUGH 2030 AND THE LIBRARY THAT MAKES THOSE GPUs ACT LIKE ONE MACHINCE IS FREE ON GITHUB everything that matters in a big training run happens in exactly 3 places: 1. how fast one GPU talks to it's neighbour 2. how the ring crosses a node boundary 3. how much of the run is waiting instead of computing how does it work under the hood and solve the problems above: 1. a training step has four phases and three of them are every GPU working alone 2. the fourth is the only moment 1.5 million of them have to agree on one number 3. that phase is NCCL: all-recude, all-gather, broadcast, tuned to whatever fabric is underneath 4. it detects the topology before your code runs so it already knows what is NVLink and what is InfiniBand 5. get it wrong and the run does not crash it just idles and you rent another node to fix a problem that was never compute repo: nvidia/nccl roughly how it actually works
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Dean (@_dean_sh) reported@cursor_ai @kentcdodds Just when GitHub is down!
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Miguel Growth (@Miguel_Growth) reported@dimabytes Where do devs go when GitHub and X are both down?
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Ne0v0ne (@ne0v0ne) reportedI think grok had something to do with GitHub being down lol
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Alok Thatikunta (@ThatikuntaAlok) reportedBest part of today's GitHub outage was Claude quietly filing an incident report at me: "gh repo create was failing with HTTP 503 from GitHub's GraphQL API (twice); the REST endpoint was unaffected, so I created the repo that way and wired up the remote by hand. Same result — just noting it in case you hit 503s on other gh commands shortly." Meanwhile Cursor launches Origin the same afternoon. Waiting on access. Timing is undefeated.
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Josh Mountain (@joshmountainli1) reportedGitHub going down + Cursor announcing a GitHub competitor is actually insane timing.
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Wass (@wassimbs2) reported@mattyp A code host becoming part of the editor workflow makes sense. GitHub being down is exactly the kind of dependency that makes builders suddenly care about the plumbing.
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abhinav (@AbhinavXJ) reportednah github is down and cursor launches their own hosting platform?? something is fishy
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Andrew Rulnick (@MickeySteamboat) reported@stepango @github I'm not joking, I'm pretty sure my protocol is circumventing the outage. Zero impact here now that this is done. It's a weird system man. I have man some things in my time but this on is deffinitely different.
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Yash Solanki (@yksolanki9) reportedi would've shipped agi today but github is down
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Dima Nurm (@NURM_Dima) reportedWiz’s report on the Snowflake Jira compromise is a useful parable. An attacker planted a path through an AI-generated GitHub Copilot “autofix” suggestion that made it into CI/CD; the code path eventually opened the door. The failure was not the model’s intent—it was a patch accepted because it looked like a fix. I keep thinking about this whenever I hear “AI-secured code.” The bottleneck is not finding the bug; it is the handoff between suggestion and commit. A human reviewer might also miss the diff, but a human reviewer is not expected to inspect every autofix at machine speed. I try to enforce one constraint now: any automatically proposed fix needs a separate test that proves the change narrows attack surface rather than adds it. Autofix without a proof of shrinkage is just faster patching.
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pbit (@0xPBIT) reportedThey waited for GitHub to go down before striking. Game of thrones style.
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Mr. Capitulation (@MrCapitulation) reportedanother @github outage?! yo get it together
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Ashwin Kulkarni (@AshwinKUlkarni4) reportedWhat a timing, amidst github is down! 🥶
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Devy (@devygram) reported@cursor_ai Cursor Announced Codebase Meanwhile Github server down What a timing…..
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laksh (@lakshgandikota) reportedWhat a timing. Did you y’all had anything to do with GitHub going down? 😜
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Tom Langer (@0xtoml) reportedIs there any chance they weren’t sitting on it for months waiting for a major github outage?