GitHub outage — August 17, 2026

Incident with GitHub.com

GitHub’s API & Webhooks was disrupted for 1h 46m on August 17, 2026.

Key facts

Timeline

1. 13:53Z

   Detected · Official

   Reported directly on GITHUB's official status page — no earlier independent (crowd / dependency / measurement) signal.
2. 15:39Z

   Resolved

   Signal volume fell back below the threshold; the event was closed.

How this was detected

Confirmed by GITHUB's official status page — no independent (crowd / dependency / measurement) corroboration.