UptimeTea

Is GitHub down right now?

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GitHub hosts the code, pull requests, Actions pipelines and packages that most software teams depend on every hour of the working day.

What we are checking

These are real UptimeTea monitors, not a scrape of GitHub's own status page. Each is requested every minute from several locations, and a failure is re-verified from an independent location before it counts.

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GitHub.com

The main website: repositories, pull requests, issues and the web editor.

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GitHub API

api.github.com, used by the CLI, editors, CI systems and every integration that reads or writes repositories.

Second opinion: GitHub's official status page. Vendors update it after they confirm an incident, which is usually minutes after it starts.

What to do when GitHub is down

  1. 1

    Keep working locally

    Git is distributed. Commit as usual and push when GitHub is back. Nothing is lost while the remote is unreachable.

  2. 2

    Do not retry a deploy blindly

    If Actions is degraded, a re-run may start and then hang. Check the official status page for the affected component before queueing more jobs.

  3. 3

    Check whether it is your network

    If these monitors are green and github.com fails for you, try another network. Corporate proxies and DNS filters block GitHub more often than GitHub goes down.

Frequently asked questions

How do you know if GitHub is down?
UptimeTea monitors load github.com and api.github.com every minute from several locations and record every failed check. A failure is confirmed from an independent location before it appears here.
GitHub.com works but git push fails. Is GitHub down?
Possibly, but partially. Git operations, the API, Actions, Pages and Packages are separate systems. The official status page lists them one by one. A 'degraded performance' entry on Git Operations is the usual cause of slow or failing pushes.
Are GitHub Actions running when GitHub is down?
Often not. Actions depends on the API and on runner capacity, and it is one of the components most often listed as degraded. Jobs queued during an incident usually start once it is resolved.
Can I get an alert when GitHub goes down?
Yes. Monitor api.github.com in your own UptimeTea account and get notified by email, SMS or call. Teams often also watch their own GitHub Pages sites the same way.

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