GitHub outage — August 20, 2026

Intermittent failures creating agent tasks

GitHub’s API & Webhooks was disrupted for 31m on August 20, 2026.

Key facts

Timeline

1. 14:53Z

   Detected · Official

   Reported directly on GITHUB's official status page — no earlier independent (crowd / dependency / measurement) signal.
2. 15:24Z

   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.