Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services.

GitHub confirmed the outage at 9:40 AM EDT on August 17, 2026, when it said it was investigating reports of performance problems affecting some of its services.

The problems quickly spread across several parts of GitHub that developers rely on, including API Requests, Actions, Webhooks, Issues, and Pull Requests.

According to GitHub's status page, the company is seeing error rates of around 20% across its web experience and API traffic.

GitHub says archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing error rates of approximately 50%.

Likewise, authentication-related services are also having problems, with SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync affected by the incident.