Archive · 17 Aug 2026
GitHub Recovers From Widespread Outage Affecting Developer Services Worldwide
GitHub is a website where people who make computer programs keep and share their code.
Many programmers around the world use it every day.
On August 17, GitHub stopped working for many people.
The website, the app, and some tools all had problems.
GitHub is owned by a big company called Microsoft.
The people who run GitHub found the part that was causing the problem.
They fixed it, and things are getting better.
Some parts are still not working perfectly.
The people at GitHub are still working hard to make everything work again.
Soon, all the programmers will be able to use GitHub like before.
GitHub suffered a widespread outage affecting its website, API, Actions, and Pull Requests.
The Microsoft-owned platform identified the problematic component and took corrective action.
Some error rates remain elevated even as services show signs of recovery.
GitHub's status update at 10:06 PM IST on August 17 reported 'strong signs of recovery'.
Engineers are still working to completely restore all affected services.
- Who
- GitHub, the Microsoft-owned software development platform, and its engineers
- What
- A widespread outage affecting GitHub's website, API, Actions, and Pull Requests, with services now recovering
- When
- August 17, with a status update at 10:06 PM IST
- Where
- Worldwide
- Why
- GitHub identified a problematic component and took corrective action; the exact root cause is not stated in the article
- Platform
- GitHub
- Owner
- Microsoft
- Affected services
- Website, API, Actions, Pull Requests
- Current status
- Recovering with 'strong signs of recovery'
- Status update time
- 10:06 PM IST, August 17
- Error rates
- Some still elevated
- Corrective action
- Problematic component identified and corrected