GitHub outage hits web, API, Actions and Copilot worldwide
TL;DR
- Microsoft confirmed at 9:40 AM EDT on August 17 that GitHub is impaired worldwide, with roughly 20% error rates across web and API traffic.
- Archive downloads and raw repository content are running near 50% error rates, and SAML, OIDC, SCIM and Team Sync authentication are also degraded.
- Actions, API Requests, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests and Copilot are hit; Git Operations, Packages, Pages and Codespaces remain operational.
At 9:40 AM EDT on August 17, Microsoft confirmed that GitHub was impaired worldwide. By 10:31 AM EDT, Copilot had joined the list.
According to GitHub's status page, "the company is seeing error rates of around 20% across its web experience and API traffic." Archive downloads and raw repository content are running around 50% error rates. SAML, OIDC, SCIM and Team Sync authentication are also degraded, along with Actions, API Requests, Webhooks, Issues and Pull Requests.
Git Operations, Packages, Pages and Codespaces stayed up. But the mix of what broke is exactly what CI/CD pipelines and coding agents lean on: workflow runs, pull-request state, auth, and Copilot itself.
Downdetector logged over 3,000 reports across the US and India. GitHub has not disclosed what caused the outage and says its investigation is ongoing.
Our coding-tools tracker has been full of model-release stories this week, from Gemini 3.7 Flash to GLM-5.3; today the substrate underneath them is the story.
Originally reported by bleepingcomputer.com
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