Topline
GitHub, the developer platform widely used for coding, has been down for much of Monday morning, according to user reports on Downdetector, as the company’s status website acknowledges it is experiencing “high error rates” and is working on a solution.
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 12:16 p.m. EDT, the company says it is experiencing “high error rates” of about 20% for web traffic, while archive and content downloads are experiencing an error rate of about 50%.
GitHub says it is “still working to identify the root cause and will continue to post updates as we learn more and perform mitigation.”
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.”
Thousands of users have reported issues with GitHub on DownDetector, with reports spiking just after 9:30 a.m. EDT.
Reports of GitHub issues have declined throughout the morning, but there were still roughly 1,000 reports as of shortly after 12 p.m. EDT.
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)