GitHub back online after widespread disruption
After experiencing a major outage on Wednesday, GitHub reports its services are now fully operational.
GitHub, a major platform for developers and code repositories, experienced a significant outage on Wednesday, affecting its website and multiple services. The issues were linked to changes in the platform’s database infrastructure, which have since been rolled back. As of 8:26PM ET, GitHub confirmed that all services are now fully operational.
Earlier, many users encountered an error message when trying to access the site, which stated, ‘no server is currently available to service your request.’ Alongside this message, users were greeted by an image of an angry unicorn. The outage impacted core services, including pull requests, GitHub Pages, Copilot, and the GitHub API.
The outage escalated quickly, with GitHub’s first status message at 7:11PM ET, followed by reports of issues with several key services. According to Downdetector, more than 10,000 users reported problems within minutes of the first alert. International outages were confirmed by internet monitoring service NetBlocks just two minutes later.
GitHub, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, has not yet provided a detailed comment on the incident. However, services have now returned to normal, and the platform continues to monitor its systems for any lingering issues.
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