GitHub had a major outage, but now says its services are “fully operational”

GitHub, the popular code repository and developer platform, has recovered after facing major issues on Wednesday that affected its website and many GitHub services. The company has rolled back changes to its database infrastructure that apparently caused the problems and says the services are now “fully operational,” according to a status message at 8:26 p.m. GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018.

When we first published this story, browsing to GitHub’s main website resulted in an error message saying “no servers are currently available to service your request,” but the website was up and running again shortly thereafter. (The error message also showed an image of an angry unicorn.) GitHub’s incident report also listed issues with things like pull requests, GitHub Pages, Copilot, and the GitHub API.

Things appear to have escalated rapidly. GitHub’s first status message was at 7:11PM ET, but over the next few minutes, GitHub reported issues with several of its services. The issues appear to have been widespread, with Downdetector showing over 10,000 user reports of issues, and that the issues were being reported rather suddenly. At 7:13PM, internet monitoring service NetBlocks also posted that GitHub was “experiencing international outages.”

GitHub did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Update, August 14:GitHub says it has recovered from the major outage.