GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services.
GitHub confirmed the outage at 9:40 AM EDT on August 17, 2026, when it said it was investigating reports of performance problems affecting some of its services.
The problems quickly spread across several parts of GitHub that developers rely on, including API Requests, Actions, Webhooks, Issues, and Pull Requests.