GitHub status: access issues and outage reports
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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 18: 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:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Quito
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Sign in | 13 hours ago |
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Junín
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Errors | 13 hours ago |
 Guadalajara
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Errors | 14 hours ago |
 Paris
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Website Down | 14 hours ago |
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Quito
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Errors | 14 hours ago |
 São Paulo
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Errors | 14 hours ago |
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GitHub Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Ryan Bilesky (@ryanshipswell) reported@BjarnBronsveld That assumes lack of capacity is Github's problem. I don't think it is. I think the fact that they have no proper leadership combined with AI slop engineering. Like AI is great but with great power comes great responsibility, and with no real leadership under Microsoft Github has no direction on the proper use of AI.
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zek (@zekramu) reportedGitHub was down today? pshhh, didn’t notice, was too busy on gitlab. what? I actually did something about my dislike for github instead of bitching about it online and doing nothing. crazy.
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KP (@kporto) reported@grok @xdNiBoR @aaronburnett Precisely the reason I asked. I kept wondering how this instance aligned with Elon's open-source directive. I saw the grok bot chatter everywhere, but something was off for me because I was falling in love with this open-source model instead. I've been exploring linux dual-boot for offline models lately, for use on my 15 years of historical Power files. Those stay 100% air-gapped at all times. Intuition told me a week ago that I needed to be on X, so I started the process of reviving this 2009 Twitter handle. Then the Cursor announment Then the github outage. 🤯
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Utkarsh (@utkarshbuilds_) reportedJUST IN: sources suggest GitHub went down so that people can’t move to cursor’s origin.
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sora 🪁 (@sorakissed) reported@pphuwiin_ Yeah I’ve found that this problem happens to people that copy from google docs. Could you try to open the GitHub page in a different browser or device?
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F | (@FepAguilar) reportedGitHub is crashing down twice a month, that’s a problem. What are we going to do?
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Text2 | OS (text2.co) (@text2os) reported@samlambert @grok It seems like GitHub was down for how long last night?
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Amit Gupta (@amitgupta) reported@simonhamp @PovilasKorop Or you could use Forgejo. Problem comes with having same ecosystem & features that Github has - unless you're just using it as plain *** repo in which case you could move anywhere without much difficulty.
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Shimecki (@scheemunai) reported@robj3d3 @cursor_ai Probably GitHub went down because millions of repos are "syncing"
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RaoulDuke (@RaoulDukeDegen) reported@pathlessknown origin launched the same day github had that big outage
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Theodore Keloglou (@torchandzen) reportedhmmm. *** + email was the original vision. then the promise of SaaS delivered and github made everything great but now (presumably) SaaS is dead. what if there was a local cli/server tool that could deliver the github UX over something -- over email is the base, but could be any
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toks (@toksdotdev) reported@griefcliff supply chain wise, its def a value add. but you're not completely immune to supply chain attacks because you self-host. for example, if you're using a mutable tag like @v2 for an action, you're exposed either way (unless you sha pin). and then you also need to wire up code scanning, vuln detection tools etc, unless you're paying for an enterprise license. i think it's worth looking at it holistically, esp. the operational side of things. self-hosting def helps if github is down, no doubt. likewise, nobody wants to get paged at 2am because their own *** service is down. i've dabbled a lot in self-hosting btw, and it's not the smooth sail folks paint it as. not many teams have the bandwidth for all that alongside product work.
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KP (@kporto) reportedPrecisely the reason I asked. I kept wondering how this instance aligned with Elon's open-source directive. I saw the grok bot chatter everywhere, but something was off for me because I was falling in love with this open-source model instead. I've been exploring linux dual-boot for offline models lately, for use on my 15 years of historical Power files. Those stay 100% air-gapped at all times. Intuition told me a week ago that I needed to be on X, so I started the process of reviving this 2009 Twitter handle. Then the Cursor announment Then the github outage. 🤯
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Soju 燒酒 | funemployed (@0xSoju) reportedlmao and GitHub went down a few hours before this came out
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Arpit Sharma (@NotArpit) reportedIf github == down { submit_origin_post(); }
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charlie marketplace (@charliemktplace) reportedLindy is so real. Github is down a full 7% of the time and still no real competition at all. Just an astronomical own goal, Microsoft truly kills everything it touches.
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shresth (@rested_7) reported@rankintweets and a week away from "here is what I learnt about b2b when github went down" l*nkedin posts
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Gaurav Chaudhari (@cgaurav19) reportedGitHub goes down and Cursor grabs the opportunity by launching Origin. Timing is everything.
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Dan Zabrotski (@dantechceo) reporteddid you guys wait specifically for the day when github is down?
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Puck (@GrokInsider) reported~1 hour into Origin. Promising, and clearly early beta. ***, GitHub sync, PRs, and in-repo agents already feel like the right shape. For FOSS it still lacks the primitives that make GitHub the default: public repos, issues, a free contribution path, and CI that is not “keep Actions on GitHub”. Visibility today is Internal or Private, paid plans only. Strong Cursor-native host. Not a GitHub replacement for open source yet.
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1752vc (@1752vc) reportedNEW: Cursor now hosts your code — Origin is in early beta on all paid plans with repos, pull requests and GitHub sync, and it shipped the same day GitHub went down for three hours. Source: Notebookcheck
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***** Frigieri (@Vascularized) reported@ericzakariasson Wait, what a timing here GitHub was down and here Cursor have launched Origin. Did you guys literally wait for GitHub to crash?
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Tristan (@0x1385) reportedyall using github for anything other than mirroring repos on your own server?
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Shaikh Nadeem (@wassup44) reported@AdityaShips Github was down on purpose
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Kostja Palović (@KostjaPalovic) reportedJust realized something: if GitHub is down and you are fed up with it, you can create a repo in GitLab push the code there and switch *** repo in @appliku and keep deploying. would take 5 minutes tops and no lost day because GitHub and their Actions are down.
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Sahith (@vsahithk) reportedGitHub was down and half of tech remembered they never set up a second remote *** is distributed. GitHub isn’t
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tree 🌳 (@wtf4yauna) reportedGithub finally up after being down all day
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Saanvi🌺 (@Saanvi_dhillon) reported@SahilPanhotra And GitHub is down
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Ali Ilhami Oztan (@ali_ilhami) reported@cursor_ai Guys admit it, you are the ones behind today's Github outage right? Cannot be coincidence 🧐
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Vlady (@danc_danc) reportedGitHub has zero nines. Down almost every week for ~6 months, and its own eng team keeps calling reliability the #1 problem The night it ate a push I had a bare remote on a drive inside ten minutes. Six months of knowing and not fixing is a priority, not an incident