GitHub status: is it down right now?
Our own check of github.com from Europe and the US, every 3 minutes, with recent history.
github.com responded. The page answered normally in 84 ms.
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The page answered normally in 84 ms.
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Our own checks from Europe and the US. Green means every check passed, amber means some checks failed, red means most checks in that period failed.
Outages our checks detected
- Down3 Oct 2026, 21:51 UTC6 min
- Down3 Oct 2026, 14:21 UTC6 min
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About GitHub
GitHub hosts Git repositories, issues, pull requests, GitHub Actions (CI/CD), Packages (npm, Docker, Maven registries), Codespaces, and Copilot. Outages break in predictable patterns: Git operations (push/pull/clone) fail when the backend is degraded, Actions queue up when the runner orchestrator has issues, the web UI fails while the API works (or vice versa), and Copilot completions silently stop. Any of these directly blocks engineering work, push failures stop deploys, Actions failures block merges, and Codespaces outages stop in-browser dev work entirely. GitHub also sees occasional incident storms around major auth events (e.g. SSH key-type rotations).
The official GitHub status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.
outage patterns
How GitHub outages affect production workloads
Developer-platform outages have outsized impact because they cascade. When GitHub is degraded, every customer's build pipeline, deploy hook, or webhook delivery can stall, and the failure mode often looks like a customer problem before engineers realize the dependency is the cause. CI runs hang, status checks never report, and queued jobs pile up silently.
The live check above provides independent public-endpoint evidence from EU and US, including status and response timing. That helps separate a broad reachability problem from a local client issue, but it does not execute your private API call, build, webhook, or deploy. Test the exact dependency path before attributing the incident to GitHub.
Common signs GitHub is having issues
- API rate limits returning earlier than the documented thresholds
- Webhook deliveries showing 5xx errors or unusual latency tail
- Deploy or build hooks accepted by GitHub but never firing downstream
- OAuth or token endpoints failing intermittently for the same client credentials
What to do when GitHub is degraded
When GitHub is having trouble, the fastest mitigation is usually feature-flagging the dependency off if your application can degrade gracefully. Check the multi-region results on this page first; if both regions report healthy but your application still sees failures, the issue is likely your network path or DNS, not GitHub itself.
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Provider status references
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The regional check can show that a public endpoint is failing before or after a provider posts broader incident context. It does not validate every product subsystem.
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Monitor GitHub on your plan interval and route confirmed endpoint failures through the notification channels available to your workspace.
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EU and US results can reveal a regional difference in public-endpoint reachability. Confirm the exact workflow and provider region you use.
Historical data
Track GitHub uptime over time. See trends, identify recurring issues, and make informed decisions about your dependency.
Frequently asked questions
Is GitHub down right now?
See the latest check of github.com and its timestamp at the top of this page. If GitHub is down, you can also check the official status page for extra context.
How do I check if GitHub is having issues?
This page checks the public GitHub endpoint from EU and US. You can also monitor that endpoint on a schedule and receive confirmed-failure alerts through the channels available on your plan. Test the exact provider feature you use for a complete diagnosis.
How can I get alerted when GitHub goes down?
Set up a free monitor for github.com on Visual Sentinel for 10-minute checks with email and push alerts. Paid plans add checks as fast as 60 seconds and more notification channels.
Where can I find GitHub outage context?
The official GitHub status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster. Visual Sentinel checks the public GitHub endpoint independently from EU and US. Paid Business and Agency plans support 60-second uptime checks.
Why can I clone a repo but git push fails during a GitHub incident?
Read and write paths for Git often go through different subsystems. Read traffic (clone, fetch, pull) can stay healthy while write traffic (push, merge) is degraded. Check the Git Operations row on githubstatus.com specifically.
Do GitHub Actions jobs resume after an outage?
Queued jobs that did not start run once the orchestrator recovers. Jobs that started and crashed mid-run need to be manually re-run. Scheduled workflows that missed their window during the outage do not auto-backfill.