GitHub outage — August 20, 2026
Intermittent failures creating agent tasks
GitHub’s API & Webhooks has a confirmed disruption, detected on August 20, 2026.
Key facts
| Detected | August 20, 2026 · 15:53 UTC |
| Confirmed | 15:53 UTC |
| Service | API & Webhooks |
| Official record | https://stspg.io/py1yl5mnq89c |
Timeline
- 15:53Z
Detected · Official
Reported directly on GITHUB's official status page — no earlier independent (crowd / dependency / measurement) signal.
How this was detected
Confirmed by GITHUB's official status page — no independent (crowd / dependency / measurement) corroboration.