The amount of activity on GitHub right now is crazy. Thoughts?
Summary
GitHub experienced a significant outage on August 17, and the company has published a blog post discussing the incident and outlining the work ahead to prevent future issues.
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The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
GitHub experienced a significant outage on August 17 due to capacity failures, disrupting services for hours. The company is accelerating efforts to improve infrastructure reliability and scale systems to handle growth.
Incident with Github.com
GitHub is experiencing high error rates and degraded performance across multiple services, including web, API, Git Operations, Webhooks, and Copilot, with ongoing investigations and mitigations.
@MTSlive: SITUATION DETECTED: GitHub’s monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion in April to 2.9 billion in August.
GitHub's monthly commits more than doubled from 1.4 billion in April to 2.9 billion in August, indicating a significant increase in developer activity on the platform.
GitHub Is Down
GitHub experienced a temporary outage affecting Issues, Pull Requests, and Actions for unauthenticated users. The incident has been resolved and monitoring is ongoing.
GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties
GitHub is experiencing a major outage affecting multiple services including GitHub Actions, Pages, Copilot, and Enterprise Importer, with workflow failures and delays. Engineers are actively working on mitigations.