Is GitHub down?

Operational

No. GitHub is up — its own status page reports “All Systems Operational”.

Checked 3 min ago · Aug 19, 05:49 UTC · Official GitHub status page →

90 days ago 9 of 18 watched days incident-free today

Grey bars are days before PixlRun started reading GitHub's status page (August 2, 2026). We do not mark a day green unless we were actually watching it. This is not an uptime percentage: we read GitHub's own status page every 15 minutes, we do not ping the service.

12 Incidents · 30 days logged from the official status page

Aug 18 Last incident 22 hours ago

4h 8m Last incident duration from the incident record itself

15 min Check interval automated, around the clock

LIVEGitHub incident history12 most recent of 12 on record

Date	Incident	Duration	Outcome
Aug 18, 2026 07:40 UTC	Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages	4h 8m	Resolved
Aug 17, 2026 13:40 UTC	Incident with GitHub.com	—	Open
Aug 13, 2026 16:21 UTC	Disruption with GHEC Team Sync	—	No update
Aug 13, 2026 14:45 UTC	Incident with Webhooks	1h 3m	Resolved
Aug 12, 2026 16:16 UTC	Incident with Pull Requests and Issues	32m	Resolved
Aug 11, 2026 14:50 UTC	Incident with GraphQL API Requests	—	No update
Aug 10, 2026 20:27 UTC	Disruption with Copilot for access to some models	1h 36m	Resolved
Aug 10, 2026 18:02 UTC	Disruption with creation of fine grained personal access tokens	46m	Resolved
Aug 6, 2026 15:22 UTC	Incident with Actions	10h 56m	Resolved
Aug 6, 2026 15:03 UTC	Incident with Pages - Deployment Lag	9h 15m	Resolved
Aug 5, 2026 11:38 UTC	Some Copilot Cloud Agent jobs not starting	1h 40m	Resolved
Aug 3, 2026 09:53 UTC	Incident with Copilot	1h 40m	Resolved

Durations come from GitHub's own resolution notice where it publishes one, otherwise from the span between our first and last reading of that incident. A dash means we could not back a number up.

Is GitHub down? Questions people ask

Is GitHub down right now?

No. GitHub's official status page reported All Systems Operational when we checked it 3 min ago. We re-check every 15 minutes.

How often does GitHub have outages?

We recorded 12 incidents on GitHub's official status page in the last 30 days. The most recent one started on August 18, 2026 (07:40 UTC) and lasted about 4h 8m.

Where is GitHub's official status page?

GitHub's official status page is https://www.githubstatus.com. PixlRun reads it automatically every 15 minutes and logs each incident on this page.

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