GitHub is down – The Verge

GitHub, the popular code repository and developer platform, is currently dealing with some major issues affecting its main website and many GitHub services. “We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back,” GitHub wrote at 7:29PM ET on its status website. GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018.

When we first published this story, navigating to the main GitHub website showed an error message that says “no server is currently available to service your request,” but the website now seems to be working again. (The error message also featured an image of an angry unicorn.) GitHub’s report of the current incident lists problems with things like pull requests, GitHub Pages, Copilot, and the GitHub API.

Things seem to have escalated rapidly; GitHub’s first status message was at 7:11PM ET, but in the minutes after, GitHub reported issues with several of its services.

The issues appear to be widespread, with Downdetector showing more than 10,000 user reports of problems and that the problems were reported quite suddenly. Internet monitoring service NetBlocks is also recognizing that GitHub is “currently experiencing international outages.”

GitHub didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.