GitHub outage — August 17, 2026
Incident with GitHub.com
GitHub’s Issues & PRs was disrupted for 59m on August 17, 2026. 503Radar’s sensors raised the first signal at 20:39 UTC, 13m 27s before the official status page acknowledged impact.
Key facts
| Detected | August 17, 2026 · 20:39 UTC |
| Confirmed | 20:53 UTC · lead time 13m 27s |
| Resolved | 21:39 UTC |
| Duration | 59m |
| Service | Issues & PRs |
| Official record | https://stspg.io/y1fl26l6wpzr |
Timeline
- 20:39Z
Detected · Signal
5 crowd signals for Issues & PRs on GITHUB crossed the signal threshold. - 20:53Z
Confirmed · Official
An official GITHUB status-page notice corroborated the event — 13m 27s after detection. - 21:39Z
Resolved
Signal volume fell back below the threshold; the event was closed.
How this was detected
1 independent evidence class for issues-prs on GITHUB. 5 crowd reports across mastodon, telegram (below the anomaly threshold), z=+0.2σ vs the cell baseline. Official notice confirms it, 13m 27s after the crowd.