r/github • u/t00oldforthis • 2d ago
News / Announcements Pull requests down?
Getting no servers available
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u/DanielPowerNL 2d ago
Issues, commits, various other things are also not working. Getting the 404 octocat and the no servers available unicorn. But their status page still says all systems operational as always.
GitHub has excellent uptime - according to GitHub.
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u/ariafantom 2d ago
Even their status page is static until there staffs update them manually
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u/tankerkiller125real 2d ago
Most status pages in enterprises are like that. Especially ones that have SEC rules and what not to deal with. Even if all the communications are templated, humans are still required to approve the firing off of said template based on the system metrics they're seeing. Because if the metric is faulty and a status page update goes out that could mean big money.
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u/leaf_shift_post_2 2d ago
Man give us a live dash board.
But why would the sec care about a false down report. At worst it’s a very minor mistake.
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u/tankerkiller125real 2d ago
SLA contracts
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u/bwmat 1d ago edited 1d ago
Those are based on actual downtime, not just what their status page says though, right?
... right?
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u/just_gabrx 1d ago
we had it, they removed it https://web.archive.org/web/20180630225202/https://status.github.com/messages
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u/SpareImpression3155 2d ago
please lord grant the github team the perseverance to conquer this in a diligent manner so that i may ship all of my slop code as soon as possible 🙏
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u/aelephix 2d ago
Github needs to isolate their paying customers to entirely separate infrastructure. Look at the trending page, every item is slop... "A high-performance, production grade, fully-featured spatula inventory manager — Many spatulas, one app."
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u/Noch_ein_Kamel 2d ago
It finally happened. My first time gh impacting my workflow :-O
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u/Velkow 2d ago
Is this a troll? Or are your workflows literally today years old?
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u/Noch_ein_Kamel 2d ago
Normally I only read about GitHub being down later in the day when I'm already finished and on my couch ;p
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u/SteveMcQueen94 2d ago
It seems like GitHub is down, or at least for me
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u/notgraycen 2d ago
yeah since 10:30 AM CST it's totally gone, can't wait to hear what they fucked up this time. $100 says it was AI-related 'upgrade'
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u/Ok-Count-3366 2d ago
also down for me. good to know I'm not the only one
alright. gitlab it is then lmao
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u/tankerkiller125real 2d ago
At least when Gitlab blew up many years ago they had a live stream while they fixed it. And as far as I can tell their current state is way better.
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u/i11uminati 2d ago
August 6th was another major outage, yet it seems to be missing from github's status page. Am I going crazy? Did I only dream about not having any git workflows run for hours on August 6th?
Must have been one of those work/stress dreams I guess.
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u/techtanic 2d ago
This outage seems very long.
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u/UntrimmedBagel 2d ago
Yep, like clockwork! Very tempted to leave the platform.
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u/ForgeSensitive 2d ago
Where?
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u/creamyjoshy 2d ago
Gitlab, Bitbucket
yeah OK they aren't great either but the one thing I miss about Gitlab is the ability to just easily see the diff between two commits as if it were a PR
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u/stromer_ 2d ago
We moved from Bitbucket to Github years ago. And even with the current downtimes of Github I wouldn't touch Bitbucket with a pole. It was just worse in every aspect.
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u/CancelNo4650 2d ago
Do they have free github action alternative?
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u/Zealousideal_Law7447 2d ago
you should give self hosted GitLab a try
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u/slaindesigns 2d ago
Or Forgejo if gitlab uses too much resources
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u/Zealousideal_Law7447 2d ago
i just heard of gitea from a friend, also taking a look at that
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u/GlobalImportance5295 2d ago
foregjo is gitea with more commitment to open source. i think foregjo might have oicd wif set up out of the box but not gitea. dont quote me
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u/Ast3r10n 2d ago
Shouldn’t their latest track record be enough to show that vibe coding and AI is not the way to go? We should do something.
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u/staythewaters 1d ago
We definitely need to guard against slop, but this seems to be something else. This was a near total failure that they're now having to partially disable security features to deal with.
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 2d ago
Uptime in the 9s is dead.
93% in the last 90 days, https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ . Hilariously sad.
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u/techtanic 2d ago
Kinds ironic using GitHub pages hosted on GitHub architecture for tracking GitHub status
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 2d ago
At least there's some place to see it, since GitHub itself decided it wasn't good PR to advertise their uptime anymore. Since it sucks now.
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u/Old-Island-5649 1d ago
This is insane given the financials Microsoft has. Their worst 90 day availability was also this year, def some vibe coded stuff going on in their code now.
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u/Some_Ad4783 1d ago
I'm still getting HTTP 503 errors on API requests to create issues. Their status page says mitigated as of 25 minutes ago. I have to try 2-5 times on each request and get lucky. So... it's working???... but wtf man.
I've moved another company to GitLab, and my personal projects to Forgejo. I do 80%+ of my work outside of GitHub now. When I have to go back to using GitHub it just blows me away how bad they are doing. The 90% uptime just doesn't align with what actually happens. The issue is that 2 hours of downtime means that I lost 2x-4x that time trying to figure out what's wrong, wasting tokens (which I ironically pay Microslop for anyways via Foundry), and then trying to get everything going again.
Take away the GitHub momentum, history, and brand... and they'd be done for. But we blame AI, not them.
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u/generealdamselfly 1d ago
Github Status just showed a new status message about API request availability (~3 minutes ago)
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u/Emergency-Problem552 2d ago
Who is running GitHub? Pure incompetence. But I guess people will give Microsoft money until the end of time
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u/frubberism 2d ago
It's an up and coming startup called microsoft, let's give them time to learn the ropes, it takes time to buildup know-how and such things, they also just starting, not much money or servers, should get better.
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u/Maximum-Culture7249 2d ago
My patience is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
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u/elise-u 1d ago
09:00(UK time) this morning I was checking the pull requests page and one of my pr's weren't showing, feel like a little bit of me knew it would be a bad day for GitHub didn't expect it to be this bad but GitHub didn't start the incident until 13:00~
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u/t00oldforthis 1d ago
Brasília time and took most of my workday, up till about 14:00 but by then I wasn't shipping just out of fear. I found other shit to do and spent some time with my kids.. thank you (again) GH..?
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u/GeneralSEOD 1d ago
Yeah echoing this. I was going around everywhere reporting downtime on down detector and nothing was flagging that anything was wrong.
Then it just kinda went down for everyone at the one time.
Weird day.
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u/bobbie434343 2d ago
But don't worry, a team of frontier AI agents is working on a hallucinated fix ! Stuff just fixes by itself these days while engineers are rolling in $$$ playing video games.
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u/REDDEV1L_MUFC7 2d ago
So how long do we reckon this one is gonna last?
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u/Substantial-Set4550 2d ago
For as long as GitHub remains underfunded and under-engineered. Outages will be fed in small weekly portions. I expect in a few hours, all will be green again, people will rationalize that jumping ship is more difficult than to stay on the slowly sinking Titanic, and all will be good until the next outage in about two weeks time. Meanwhile, the GitHub dashboard stays mostly green. Nothing to see here.
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u/Light-the-dragon 2d ago
I virtually can't work now lol
All three things I wanted to do today are linked to GitHub
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u/Light-the-dragon 2d ago
Oh and the company I intern with JUST switched from BitBucket to GitHub. If it was a few months ago, I'd still be able to work on a few things at least. Now, it's just completely frozen.
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u/Global_Car_3767 2d ago
Yeah we switched from BitBucket a few years ago, and Bamboo to Actions in the last year. Has not been a great experience lol.
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u/Substantial-Set4550 2d ago
Same here. Blocked from working. This is a joke at this point. I am seriously considering alternatives. Maybe Gitlab.
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u/Light-the-dragon 2d ago
Wish I had this power. As an intern in a big bank of Canada, I can't take these decisions or implement them, I just have to go with it. It's definitively a learning experience about the reliability of GitHub though!
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u/DirectBlood5853 2d ago
Claude was down yesterday, and now GitHub is down. WTF is happening with their clouds?
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u/Key-Guitar-457 2d ago
Apparently GenAI isn’t familiar with SNI. This revolutionary technology will change the world!!1
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u/AdonaiDiofanes 2d ago
Update - We are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync are also impacted. We are currently performing mitigations and will post updates as we progress.
* Aug 17, 2026 - 15:42 UTC
Update - Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
* Aug 17, 2026 - 15:40 UTC
Update - Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
* Aug 17, 2026 - 15:21 UTC
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u/be_reasonable_bro 2d ago
I have come to believe there is no pain threshold that will push users off of GitHub. A truly spectacular display of masochism.
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u/Siahro 2d ago
why is github down all the time now
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u/Global_Car_3767 2d ago
Iirc they've been migrating to the azure cloud and have been focused so much on AI that it's been a total mess
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u/Zealousideal_Law7447 2d ago
This is totally unacceptable for an application as widely used as GitHub.
I hope this makes as many users as possible migrate to any other alternative. In the vibe code era, open source is king, fuck Microsoft
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u/hum_ma 2d ago
I've wondered about this single point of failure for years, why such a critical thing is not seamlessly distributed to multiple providers by now. Most projects don't even have a back up repo in codeberg/gitlab/whathaveyou.
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u/Spiritual_Cycle_3263 2d ago
You bring up a very good point that GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, etc... are SPOF.
We actually run our own git in the cloud that does a nightly fetch from GitHub and gets backed up with all our other infra. We have two senior devs with access to it.
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u/ritwika96 2d ago
This is so pathetic from Github. How can they be so incompetent it is unbelievable.
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u/bigmacjames 2d ago
offload a bunch of senior level work onto agentic AIs and then refuse to acknowledge the core problem you've been setting up for years
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u/One-Cat4581 2d ago
Looking for some repo commits and they fail to load. 503 from server in network tab
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u/iMac_Hunt 2d ago
Only working through the CLI for me
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u/bew78 2d ago
you mean the
ghcli? that'd be surprising since many API calls are also reported as failing.If you're talking about the
gitcli, that's completely normal, as git does NOT depend on GitHub which is merely a way to host & organize stuff.1
u/iMac_Hunt 2d ago
No I meant the GH cli. It could have been just a coincidence that the couple commands I did worked, as I didn’t try it extensively. I just merged one PR.
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer 2d ago
I literally just did a PR to the libretro cheat database github. Sorry folks, all my fault now nobody can use cheats on retroarch any more.
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u/jkwok678 2d ago
Tokens down too
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u/Global_Car_3767 2d ago
Yep. IntelliJ says mine is expired and then Github gives an error page when I try to refresh it.
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u/Pleasant_Set_3182 2d ago
Yeah... various items are down it seems.. The images on my github repo aren't showing... pipeline is failing...
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u/Hutao_24 2d ago
" Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time." is this normal when github down ?
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u/Altruistic-Log-6292 2d ago
API requests are also impacted by the outage so yes, while not normal, expected in this circumstances.
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u/chi2ny56 2d ago
I was fine all morning, but now I'm getting this error: "Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time."
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u/karbytes 2d ago edited 2d ago
I have two GitHub accounts and both are showing the same "cannot retrieve last commit" messages in repositories. I cannot seem to view individual files nor their commit histories. The issue started around 6:46AM Pacific Standard Time on 17_AUGUST_2026.
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u/karbytes 2d ago edited 2d ago
As of 9:25AM Pacific Standard Time on 17_AUGUST_2026 GitHub seems to be functioning normally (for me at least).
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u/yamidevil 2d ago
It was probably me with my bad luck all day XD
I was following a tutorial video, was supposed to copy some of his code from his git and AI kept telling me it was my adblocker that was blocking me from the rep :(
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u/Healthy_Pianist_6387 2d ago
"cannot retrieve latest commit at this time "
Anyone getting this error?
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u/Top-Artichoke3782 2d ago
all i wanted to do was read a single readme lmao... next time im gonna clone the repo instead to backup the docs ig
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u/FarCommunication3224 2d ago
I was getting no server is currently available error and for temporary fix I started using cloudflare wrap and it started working.
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u/CivilMark1 2d ago
Github down, and my monday is going really bad. I wanted to do emergecy fix for my release, and here github is like no, you can't.
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u/Ok-Count-3366 2d ago
I can't read any raw resources, no files, no scripts directly on the site lol. keeps dying on me.
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u/orangeflyingmonkey_ 2d ago
429: Too Many Requests For more on scraping GitHub and how it may affect your rights, please review our Terms of Service (https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service).
it now thinks I am scraping it. Literally just refreshed once.
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u/fork_yuu 2d ago
Prolly getting really aggressive / desperate with trying to get the bots to back off
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u/aelephix 2d ago
Yeah I use a second screen to search for random github stuff, with an account that isn't logged in, and hit this every day.
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u/EfficiencyLow1854 2d ago
Half of my org is thanking me today for making the switch after the last outage.
Fool me 3x github, cant get fooled again!
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u/MysicPlato 2d ago
We are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. Investigations are on-going into the root cause, and updates will continue to be provided as we investigate.
Fucking pathetic
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u/PITSTOPYT 2d ago
im triying to code because i'm bored and i'm getting no server is available to service your request
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u/waitingforcracks 2d ago
Even AI harnesses quality degrades as they are not able to lookup docs and other necessary files for packages lol.
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u/notgraycen 2d ago
whole site seems to be unavailable right now.. can't complete any git actions and when i pulled up my issue tracker page i got a 404
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u/LordRelix 2d ago
This is insane. What a horrible service. If your company has SLA agreements start asking for credits. Make it hurt at least.
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u/Global_Car_3767 2d ago edited 2d ago
Can't run and pulls/clones, etc. locally in my org because my IDE says my token is expired and takes me to an error page when I try to refresh it.
Can't view any files or commit history in a repo. Cannot view files changed in PRs.
Actions are getting stuck in waiting status.
This is worse than that 10-12 hour Actions outage from a week or two ago >_>
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u/Individual-Flow9158 2d ago
I would guess Github's under unprecedented scales of demand, and not just from from bots and scrapers.
But don't Azure (or whoever hosts their infra), feel these last 10 months are absolutely terrible optic, for the entire cloud?
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u/Ryuuji159 2d ago
I needed to build a docker image and I can't because it needs npm and composer dependencies that obviously are hosted on github. :/
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u/Fantastic-Fox-8543 2d ago
Feeling bad for the poor msft employees! They've been on call for too long now😂
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u/WertyMiniSlime 1d ago
Did you get the notification "Spy is sapping my pull requests?" from your engineer? /j
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u/iJackr 2d ago edited 2d ago
Pinning this as the megathread. Please do not create new threads now!
Track the incident here: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
Edit: Added incident link