GitHub experienced a serious service incident, affecting 8 components, but has since been restored.

GitHub experienced a serious service incident on August 17, 2026, affecting eight components: API Requests, Issues, Pages, Git Operations, Webhooks, Actions, Pull Requests, and Copilot.

Status logs show that during the incident, website experience and API traffic experienced an error rate of approximately 20%, while archive downloads and raw repository content downloads had an error rate of approximately 50%. GitHub announced the incident was resolved at 21:15 UTC that day, but a detailed root cause analysis is still pending.

refer to:GitHub Status Incident Log