GitHub restores services after nearly 8-hour outage disrupts Actions, APIs, PRs and Copilot

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). At the height of the incident, GitHub reported an error rate of about 20% across its web experience and API traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads were seeing an error rate of approximately 50%, while SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync were also affected. GitHub’s AI coding assistant, Copilot, also experienced degraded availability beginning at 2:31 PM UTC. The company later said that some Copilot authentication problems persisted even after other parts of the platform had recovered. Recovery was not …