Is GitHub Down Today?

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Common GitHub issues

  • Actions queues stuck — runners never picking up jobs
  • Pull request mergeability stuck on "Checking..."
  • Codespaces failing to provision
  • Pages deploys timing out

Latest GitHub problems

From GitHub's official status feed
  • Degradation in repos contents API

    resolved

    This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

    Sep 4, 2026Details →
  • Disruption with Copilot Code Review

    resolved

    On September 4, 2026, between 20:04 and 22:26 UTC, GitHub Copilot code review experienced an increased failure rate. Affected pull request reviews failed to complete or post review comments.<br /><br />The incident was caused by a change to the service’s authentication permissions that prevented it from submitting affected reviews to the GitHub API. We reverted the change and restored normal operation by 22:26 UTC.<br /><br />We apologize for the disruption.

    Sep 4, 2026Details →
  • Incident with Grok Copilot AI Model Provider

    resolved

    Between 13:22 and 17:11 UTC on September 03, 2026, GitHub Copilot experienced degradation affecting several Grok models, including Grok 4.5 and Grok 4.6. Users encountered elevated error rates, but other models were not affected. The degradation was caused by an issue with an upstream model provider. GitHub engineers detected the issue through automated monitoring, displayed in-product warnings for the affected models, and coordinated with the provider. Service returned to normal after the provider implemented a mitigation.

    Sep 3, 2026Details →
  • Delays in commit processing

    resolved

    On September 1, 2026, between approximately 14:01 and 16:01 UTC, updates in response to pushes were delayed, temporarily showing stale diffs. The median time to refresh a diff after a push rose from the normal level of about 3 seconds to over 2 minutes at the peak, and more than 140,000 customer accounts had at least one delayed refresh during the most affected 75 minutes. Pushing commits and opening pull requests continued to work normally. The incident was caused by a sharp, concentrated surge in push volume that saturated worker pools and job queueing infrastructure. Autoscaling did not increase capacity as intended, so the backlog did not clear on its own. <br /><br />The incident was mitigated by manually scaling the affected worker pools and increasing push-processing capacity. This allowed the system to process the backlog, after which refresh times returned to normal. To reduce the likelihood and impact of similar incidents, we are adding quotas and throttling earlier in the push path so a single concentrated source of load cannot saturate shared capacity, improving worker-pool autoscaling so capacity is added automatically, and improving monitors for background job processing so on-call is paged before customers experience delayed pull request updates.

    Sep 1, 2026Details →
  • Elevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by Copilot

    resolved

    Between 08:37 and 09:41 UTC on August 31, 2026, GitHub Copilot experienced degradation affecting several GPT models, including gpt-5.2, gpt-5.3-codex, gpt-5.4, gpt-5.4-mini, gpt-5.4-nano, and the gpt-5.6 family (Luna, Sol, and Terra). Users encountered elevated error rates and interrupted streaming responses. Other models were not affected.<br /><br />The degradation was caused by an issue with an upstream model provider. GitHub engineers detected the issue through automated monitoring, displayed in-product warnings for the affected models, and coordinated with the provider. Service returned to normal after the provider implemented a mitigation.

    Aug 31, 2026Details →

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How does DownSignal check if GitHub is down?

DownSignal sends HTTP requests to GitHub's servers every 30 seconds and measures the response time. If the server responds normally, it's marked as Operational. Slow responses indicate Degraded performance, and failed requests mean the service is Down.

About GitHub Status Monitoring

This page provides real-time status monitoring for GitHub. DownSignal checks GitHub's availability every 30 seconds by sending HTTP requests to their servers and measuring response times. If GitHub responds within normal parameters, we report it as Operational. If response times exceed 3 seconds, it's marked as Degraded. If the request fails entirely or times out, the service is reported as Down.

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