GitHub was down for most of the day

If you heard lots of grumbling in coffee shops today, GitHub's outage may be why.

GitHub Down: Pull Requests, Issues, Actions And Copilot Hit By Major Outage Today

GitHub is facing a significant outage on August 17, 2026, with multiple core services degraded since around 7:10 PM IST. The company has confirmed elevated error rates across its platform and is ...
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Is GitHub down? Fresh outage triggers issues with webhooks, Git operations, pull requests and packages

GitHub is reportedly down, with outage reports suddenly shooting upward. Users are reporting problems across several core services. Downdetector's live graph shows reports jumping sharply after ...
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GitHub going offline is bad — Copilot crashing at the same time is a developer disaster unfolding in real time

A major outage is hitting GitHub and Copilot right now, blocking pull requests, webhooks, and API calls for developers worldwide.

Microsoft confirms GitHub outage: Here’s what all is affected

GitHub is facing a widespread outage affecting core developer services, authentication, downloads and Copilot, while Amazon continues to overhaul its AI strategy around frontier-model research.
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Jenkins GitHub Webhook build trigger by example

A practical walkthrough for replacing GitHub password authentication with a personal access token for repository operations. Follow practical Git commands for cloning a repository or initializing an ...