GitHub outage on August 18, 2026
On August 18, 2026, GitHub had 2 incidents recorded on Microsoft's official status page, lasting about 47 minutes. Here's what happened, in the provider's own words — DownRNdoesn't invent causes or durations.
major
Incident with Actions
- Started
- 5:36 AM ET
- Resolved
- 6:23 AM ET
- Duration
- 47 minutes
- Status
- resolved
minor
Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages
- Started
- 3:40 AM ET
- Resolved
- 7:42 AM ET
- Duration
- 4h 2m
- Status
- resolved