GitHub outage — August 12, 2026
Incident with Pull Requests and Issues
GitHub’s Issues & PRs has a confirmed disruption, detected on August 12, 2026. 503Radar’s sensors raised the first signal at 15:38 UTC, 44m 36s before the official status page acknowledged impact.
Key facts
| Detected | August 12, 2026 · 15:38 UTC |
| Confirmed | 16:23 UTC · lead time 44m 36s |
| Service | Issues & PRs |
| Official record | https://stspg.io/ssd9z8l2g46v |
Timeline
- 15:38Z
Detected · Signal
1 crowd signal for Issues & PRs on GITHUB crossed the signal threshold. - 16:23Z
Confirmed · Official
An official GITHUB status-page notice corroborated the event — 44m 36s after detection.
How this was detected
1 independent evidence class for issues-prs on GITHUB. 1 crowd report across bluesky (single platform — not corroborating), z=-0.1σ vs the cell baseline. Official notice confirms it, 44m 36s after the crowd.