--- title: Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide | daily.dev description: GitHub experienced a widespread outage starting at 13:40 UTC on August 17, 2026, affecting the website, API, Actions, Webhooks, Issues, and Pull Requests.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide-3t7wne9rb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide | daily.dev og:description: GitHub experienced a widespread outage starting at 13:40 UTC on August 17, 2026, affecting the website, API, Actions, Webhooks, Issues, and Pull Requests.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide-3t7wne9rb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3t7wNE9rb.png og:image:alt: Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide **[BleepingComputer](https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer)** · 2 min read · 5 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary GitHub experienced a widespread outage starting at 13:40 UTC on August 17, 2026, affecting the website, API, Actions, Webhooks, Issues, and Pull Requests. Error rates reached around 20% across web and API traffic, while archive and raw repository content downloads saw roughly 50% error rates. Authentication services (SAML, OIDC, SCIM, Team Sync) were also impacted, and by 14:31 UTC GitHub confirmed Copilot was experiencing degraded availability too. Git Operations, Packages, Pages, and Codespaces remained operational. GitHub had not disclosed a cause at the time and said its investigation was ongoing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why is GitHub down right now and which services are affected? GitHub confirmed a widespread outage starting at 13:40 UTC on August 17, 2026, investigating performance problems across its web experience and API, with error rates around 20%. Archive downloads and raw repository content saw roughly 50% error rates. Affected services included Actions, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests, and SAML/OIDC/SCIM authentication. Copilot later showed degraded availability starting 14:31 UTC. _Track live status of GitHub incidents like this on daily.dev while your CI/CD pipelines wait it out._ ### Does a GitHub outage affect GitHub Actions and Copilot too? Yes, during this incident GitHub Actions experienced degraded performance affecting automated builds, tests, and deployments that depend on GitHub's CI/CD platform, while Copilot separately began experiencing degraded availability at 14:31 UTC, roughly 51 minutes after the outage was first confirmed. Git Operations, Packages, Pages, and Codespaces stayed operational throughout. _Developers juggling CI/CD and AI coding tools can follow outage impact updates on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ray73864** · 1 upvotes > Makes me glad that I shifted all work related stuff away from GitHub and instead to gitea hosted on our own infrastructure. > > > Moved some of my personal stuff too. > > > Still have some things on GH but they aren't as important. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [GitHub appears to be struggling with one nine availability](https://daily.dev/posts/github-appears-to-be-struggling-with-one-nine-availability-d4tedw2tw) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [GitHub availability report: March 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/github-availability-report-march-2026-c2dt15scg) · GitHub Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [GitHub availability report: April 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/github-availability-report-april-2026-e5qmmiag7) · GitHub Blog · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - 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