Topline
GitHub, the developer platform widely used for coding, says it is showing “strong signs of recovery” after implementing a fix for status issues that have caused outages throughout the morning, though it says it is still working to completely restore service.
Thousands of users reported a GitHub outage on Monday. (Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images)
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Key Facts
In GitHub’s latest update, posted at 12:36 p.m. EDT, the company says it has “identified the problematic component” and has taken corrective action, though the platform’s status has not yet completely recovered.
Outage reports on DownDetector have dropped steadily from a peak of nearly 3,000 reports earlier this morning, with just a few hundred reports of issues around 12:45 p.m. EDT.
In earlier updates, GitHub said it was experiencing “high error rates” of about 20% for web traffic, while archive and content downloads experienced an error rate of about 50%.
GitHub first said it was “investigating reports of impacted performance” at 9:40 a.m. EDT, acknowledging many functions of the platform were “experiencing degraded performance.”
Forbes has reached out to GitHub for comment.
tangent
Some other products owned by Microsoft, which also owns GitHub, appeared to experience minor outages Monday morning, according to reports on DownDetector. Hundreds of users reported issues with Copilot, Microsoft’s AI tool, with reports spiking around 11:30 a.m. EDT. Microsoft Teams also received hundreds of issue reports on DownDetector on Monday morning.
big number
180 million. That’s how many users, or developers, GitHub says it serves. The company has said in recent months its growth has been rapid amid an AI coding craze. “June was by far our best month ever,” the company’s chief technology officer Vladimir Fedorov told employees earlier this summer. In a blog post in April, Fedorov said the company began working on a plan in October to expand its capacity tenfold, but by February, it became clear the platform needed to boost capacity 30x. “The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built,” Fedorov wrote, citing AI-driven workflows.
further reading
An update on GitHub availability (GitHub)