GitHub outage: Website, API, Actions and Copilot affected as users report widespread issues

On August 17, 2026, GitHub suffered an extensive outage that disrupted key services. Users encountered significant performance issues on both the website and API, leading to higher error rates across ...
Tech Times on MSN

GitHub Actions hit three-nines failure; one August outage consumed year's downtime budget

GitHub Actions uptime fell to 99.33% over 90 days after a nearly 8-hour outage on August 17, 2026 consumed almost an entire year's worth of allowable downtime in one afternoon, as 13 separate ...