GitHub degraded for over six hours
Capacity overload disrupted GitHub services for about 6.4 hours.
- Service
- GitHub
- Date
- 17 August 2026
- Cause
- Capacity
- Duration
- 6.4 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Down.Now ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “GitHub degraded for over six hours”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 17 Aug 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-08-17-github-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Down.Now, https://down.now/outages/2026.
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