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 ...

GitHub is mostly back, but lingering issues with Copilot and Issues show the platform still has some work to do before this outage is fully over.

The incident began at around 1:40 pm UTC on August 17 when GitHub said it was investigating reports of impacted performance across some services. The disruption subsequently spread to Pull Requests, ...