GitHub Down: Users Report Website, Login Issues As Pull Requests, Actions and Copilot Face Outage
GitHub is facing a significant outage on August 17, 2026, with multiple core services reporting degraded performance and elevated error rates. Pull Requests, Issues, Actions, Copilot, Webhooks and API requests are among the affected services. Downdetector has also recorded a sharp rise in user reports, while GitHub says it is investigating and applying mitigations.
GitHub is facing a significant service disruption on Monday, August 17, with users reporting problems accessing the platform as multiple core services experience degraded performance. GitHub has acknowledged elevated error rates across its platform and said it is investigating the cause while working on mitigations.
The outage is affecting several services used daily by developers and organisations, including Pull Requests, Issues, GitHub Actions, Copilot, Webhooks and API requests. User reports on Downdetector have also risen sharply, with complaints centred on website access, login problems and other service disruptions. Claude Down: Anthropic's AI Service Restored After Widespread Authentication Outage Affecting Users Globally.
GitHub Down
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... https://t.co/WB8TquG3GM
— GitHub Status (@githubstatus) August 17, 2026
BREAKING: GitHub is currently experiencing a widespread outage.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) August 17, 2026
Some GitHub servers are down, so I can’t access copilot, I have to manually code now pic.twitter.com/EGlAW4zaYJ
— Bo (@JumpManZ) August 17, 2026
*cracks fingers and sits down to work on 4 software projects*
*GITHUB DOWN*
my feeling when pic.twitter.com/Vf020rlFEO
— Chris Fanchi (@bignorthchris) August 17, 2026
What Is Down On GitHub?
According to the information provided, GitHub's official status updates show degraded availability across several services. Pull Requests, Issues, Actions and Copilot are affected, while Webhooks are also experiencing degraded performance. API requests across the platform are reporting elevated error rates.
General web experiences and API traffic are reportedly seeing error rates of around 20%. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads have been more severely affected, with roughly 50% of requests failing. Enterprise users could also face authentication-related problems, as SAML and OIDC authentication, along with SCIM and Team Sync, have been affected. Facebook Down: Desktop Users Hit by 'Account Temporarily Unavailable' Error.
GitHub Outage Timeline
GitHub first acknowledged impacted performance at around 7:10 PM IST on August 17.
Further service disruptions were subsequently reported across API requests, Actions and Webhooks, followed by Issues and Pull Requests. Copilot was also added to the list of affected services.
The latest update says GitHub is carrying out mitigations based on its investigation and monitoring the platform for improvement. A complete resolution has not yet been confirmed.
Thousands Of Users Report Problems
Downdetector has recorded a spike in reports from GitHub users during the outage. Complaints have included difficulties accessing the website, along with app and login-related problems.
The disruption also comes amid reports from users of intermittent GitHub service problems during August, although the current outage appears to involve several core services simultaneously.
Why The GitHub Outage Matters
A GitHub outage can affect more than developers directly using the website.
Many software projects rely on GitHub Actions for automated testing and deployments, while applications and development tools can depend on GitHub's APIs and repository infrastructure.
As a result, problems with the platform can potentially delay software deployments, automated workflows, repository access and updates for services that may not visibly use GitHub.
What Users Can Do
There is currently no specific user-side fix for the outage. Developers experiencing problems with Pull Requests, Issues, Actions or other affected services may need to wait until GitHub completes its mitigation and restores normal operations.
Users can monitor GitHub's live service updates through its official status page for information on the investigation and recovery. GitHub's investigation into the cause of the disruption remains ongoing.
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Aug 17, 2026 09:19 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).
