GitHub Outage Disrupts Developers Worldwide Amid Ongoing Investigation
Brief
GitHub, the world’s largest code-hosting platform, is grappling with a significant service disruption that began around 13:40 UTC on August 17, 2026, leaving developers, enterprises, and DevOps teams scrambling as core services including Pull Requests, Issues, Actions, Webhooks, and Copilot continue to experience degraded performance more than two hours into the incident.
According to GitHub’s official status page, the platform is currently seeing error rates of roughly 20% across general web experiences and API traffic, a figure that has held steady even as engineers work through mitigation steps.
The damage is far more severe for specific functions: archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are failing at an approximate 50% error rate, effectively cutting the reliability of those operations in half for the duration of the incident.