GitHuboutage history & past incidents

A running record of GitHub outages, incidents and downtime, logged automatically by DownRN. Uptime and history fill in as we keep watching — we never backfill or invent past numbers.

GitHub is operational right nowLive status →
1h 29m
Typical recovery time · median of 20 official resolved incidents

Last 90 days

Days with a recorded incident from the official feed. Empty = none logged.

minor / partial major no incident

Uptime & history

Tracking since Jun 24, 2026
Operational · 24h
96.88%
288 checks
Operational · 7d
99.26%
2016 checks
Operational · 30d
97.35%
8640 checks · 69 down

% of our checks that found GitHubfully operational. Longer windows fill in as data accrues — we never show uptime we haven't measured.

Recent checks
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Past incidents
  • Incident with API Requests
    Sep 23, 2026 · ongoing · investigating
  • Incident with Pull Requests
    Sep 20, 2026 · ongoing · monitoring
  • Elevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by Copilot
    Sep 17, 2026 · ongoing · monitoring
  • Degradation with Gemini 3.8 Flash
    Sep 16, 2026 · ongoing · monitoring
  • Disruption with some GitHub services
    Sep 15, 2026 · ongoing · monitoring
  • Disruption with some GitHub services
    Sep 15, 2026 · ongoing · investigating
  • Actions Larger Runner Jobs for some customers may be slow to start
    Sep 14, 2026 · ongoing · monitoring
  • Incident with several GitHub Services
    Sep 13, 2026 · ongoing · investigating
  • Degradation in repos contents API
    Sep 4, 2026 · ongoing · investigating
  • Disruption with Copilot Code Review
    Sep 4, 2026 · ongoing · investigating
  • Incident with Grok Copilot AI Model Provider
    Sep 3, 2026 · ongoing · investigating
  • Delays in commit processing
    Sep 1, 2026 · ongoing · investigating

Past incidents

From GitHub's official status feed — real recorded incidents.

minorIncident across several servicesrecap →
Sep 23, 2026 · resolved in 18h 44m
minorIncident with Pull Requestsrecap →
Sep 20, 2026 · resolved in 1h 9m
minorElevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by Copilotrecap →
Sep 17, 2026 · resolved in 50 min
majorDegradation with Gemini 3.8 Flashrecap →
Sep 16, 2026 · resolved in 10h 28m
minorDisruption with some GitHub servicesrecap →
Sep 15, 2026 · resolved in 49 min
minorDisruption with some GitHub servicesrecap →
Sep 15, 2026 · resolved in 1h 30m
minorActions Larger Runner Jobs for some customers may be slow to startrecap →
Sep 14, 2026 · resolved in 55 min
criticalIncident with several GitHub Servicesrecap →
Sep 13, 2026 · resolved in 1h 29m
minorDegradation in repos contents APIrecap →
Sep 4, 2026 · resolved in 21 min
majorDisruption with Copilot Code Reviewrecap →
Sep 4, 2026 · resolved in 1h 48m
minorIncident with Grok Copilot AI Model Providerrecap →
Sep 3, 2026 · resolved in 2h 54m
minorDelays in commit processingrecap →
Sep 1, 2026 · resolved in 1h 1m
minorElevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by Copilotrecap →
Aug 31, 2026 · resolved in 42 min
criticalIncident with Copilot AI Model Providersrecap →
Aug 27, 2026 · resolved in 2h 8m
minorDisruption with GitHub Billingrecap →
Aug 26, 2026 · resolved in 20h 7m
minorIncident with Actions and Pull Requestsrecap →
Aug 26, 2026 · resolved in 1h 30m
criticalIncident with Actionsrecap →
Aug 26, 2026 · resolved in 2h 50m
minorDisruption with some GitHub servicesrecap →
Aug 26, 2026 · resolved in 59 min
minorActions delays in starting runsrecap →
Aug 24, 2026 · resolved in 38 min
noneDegraded Git Operations over SSHrecap →
Aug 24, 2026 · resolved in 1 min

GitHub (owned by Microsoft) hosts code, CI/CD and packages. Outages can hit individual pieces — the website, Actions, the API, or git operations — so pushes might fail while the site loads, or vice versa; GitHub's status page breaks it down by component.