By Todd Bishop
Publication Date: 2026-08-17 17:40:00
GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code-sharing platform with 225 million users, was down for more than three hours Monday morning, disrupting software development work around the world.
The issue started at 6:40 a.m. Pacific. Within an hour and a half, nearly every part of the service was broken or slowed, including the GitHub website, tools for reviewing and merging code, the automated systems that test and ship software, and the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant.
GitHub said on its status page that it found the source of the problem shortly after 9:30 a.m. and by 10 a.m. had the outage under control, with services recovering. Copilot remained listed as an active incident and the company said it was still monitoring the…
