GitHub Suffers Large-Scale Outage, Core Services Paralyzed

7:45 update: It has been restored now.

TapTechNews on August 15th, the world's largest code hosting platform, GitHub, suffered a large-scale outage, and almost all core services were paralyzed. The official status page of GitHub shows that this failure is suspected to be caused by the change of database infrastructure, and the company is urgently rolling back.

Users reported that the main site of GitHub could not be accessed and an error message of no available servers was displayed. At the same time, multiple core services including PullRequest, GitHubPages, Copilot, and GitHubAPI were also severely affected.

It is worth noting that this failure occurred rapidly, from the first release of failure information by GitHub to the paralysis of multiple services in just a few minutes. According to the third-party monitoring platform Downdetector, more than 10,000 users have reported problems. The network monitoring agency NetBlocks also confirmed that GitHub is experiencing a global outage.

As of TapTechNews' dispatch, GitHub has not made a further response to this failure.

GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018.