GitHub outage — August 26, 2026
Incident with Actions and Pull Requests
GitHub’s Issues & PRs has a confirmed disruption, detected on August 26, 2026. 503Radar’s sensors raised the first signal at 20:09 UTC, 2h 59m before the official status page acknowledged impact.
Key facts
| Detected | August 26, 2026 · 20:09 UTC |
| Confirmed | 23:08 UTC · lead time 2h 59m |
| Service | Issues & PRs |
| Official record | https://stspg.io/nrbwjftcz72d |
Timeline
- 20:09Z
Detected · Signal
1 crowd signal for Issues & PRs on GITHUB crossed the signal threshold. - 23:08Z
Confirmed · Official
An official GITHUB status-page notice corroborated the event — 2h 59m after detection.
How this was detected
1 independent evidence class for issues-prs on GITHUB. 1 crowd report across hn_comments (single platform — not corroborating), z=-0.2σ vs the cell baseline. Official notice confirms it, 2h 59m after the crowd.