{"id":426351,"date":"2026-08-19T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/github-outage-disrupted-issues-actions-and-copilot-for-hours\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:39:00","slug":"github-outage-disrupted-issues-actions-and-copilot-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/github-outage-disrupted-issues-actions-and-copilot-for-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Outage Disrupted Issues, Actions and Copilot for Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The GitHub outage on August 17 affected GitHub.com services including Issues, Pull Requests, APIs, Actions and Copilot, according to the company\u2019s status record. GitHub said the incident ran from 13:28 to 21:15 UTC, a total of seven hours and 47 minutes, before the incident was resolved.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inews.zoombangla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/github-outage.png\" alt=\"github outage\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3269861\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 1260px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>GitHub\u2019s incident report said peak error rates reached about 20% for web and API traffic and about 50% for archive and raw-content traffic. SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM and Team Sync were also affected. Most services recovered by 16:36 UTC, while Actions remained degraded until about 18:03 UTC and Copilot Token Service recovered fully at 21:02 UTC.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it moved some traffic from its Central United States region to Northern Virginia during the incident. GitHub also reported that delayed replies exposed a retry issue in Visual Studio Code, which amplified traffic to the Copilot Token Service by about ten times.<\/p>\n<p><a data-autolink-id=\"278\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.zoombangla.com\/category\/english\/business-english\/technology\/\">Windows<\/a> Central reported that GitHub and Copilot users were seeing failures and delays during the incident, while GitHub\u2019s own status page recorded the service-by-service recovery. The status page currently lists all systems as operational. 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