GitHub has restored services after a nearly eight-hour outage disrupted several of its core developer tools, including Actions, pull requests, APIs, Git operations, Webhooks, and Copilot, impacting software development workflows across its platform.
“This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue,” the company wrote on its status page.
The disruption was first reported at 1:40 PM UTC on August 17, with GitHub initially flagging degraded performance across parts of its platform. Within minutes, the disruption had spread to API Requests, Actions, Webhooks, Issues, and pull requests (PRs).
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