GitHub, the cloud platform that hosts IT projects, has been unavailable to many users due to a large-scale outage. The company confirmed the incident at 9:40 a.m. ET and said it was investigating reports of performance issues affecting some of its services. These issues quickly spread to multiple parts of the developer community on GitHub, including API requests, actions, webhooks, issues, and pull requests.
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The company is currently seeing error rates of approximately 20% for website and API traffic, and 50% error rates when downloading archives and raw repository content. There are also issues with authentication-related services: SAML and OIDC, SCIM and Team Sync are also affected by this incident.
Some users are experiencing server errors when trying to access GitHub, while others report problems loading commit, repository, and pull request pages. The performance of GitHub Actions is also affected, meaning outages may impact automated builds, tests, deployments and other workflows that rely on the GitHub CI/CD platform.
At 10:31 a.m. ET, GitHub confirmed that Copilot’s availability has also been reduced, and its AI program services have also been affected. Git operations, packages, pages, and code spaces are currently listed as running, but several important parts of GitHub are still in degraded mode.
Earlier reports pointed to GitHub’s crisis, which threatens its continued survival under Microsoft’s wing – the service frequently suffers technical glitches, security breaches and intense pressure from competitors.
The cause of the massive power outage has not been reported and the investigation into the incident is ongoing.
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