Is GitHub down?
Live status for GitHub (https://github.com)
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About GitHub outages
GitHub is the world’s largest code hosting platform, and its outages stall software teams globally — pushes fail, pull requests will not merge, and CI pipelines that fetch from GitHub break in cascade.
GitHub publishes official incident updates at its status page — worth checking alongside our live test above.
What to do when GitHub is down
- Switch your git remote between SSH and HTTPS, since GitHub's two transport methods run on different infrastructure and one can fail while the other still works.
- If a GitHub Pages site or raw.githubusercontent.com content will not load while github.com itself works, check the status page's separate component for that CDN path.
- For Copilot suggestions failing while everything else works normally, check the status page's Copilot component specifically, since it runs independently of core git hosting.
- Test with `ssh -T [email protected]` or a fresh personal access token to rule out an expired credential before assuming a platform-wide incident.
GitHub alternatives to use in the meantime
If GitHub is down, local git operations such as committing, branching, and diffing all keep working, since only push, pull, and pull-request actions need the network. Teams that must collaborate in the meantime can share patches directly or fall back to a mirror on GitLab or Bitbucket if one is already configured. CI pipelines relying on GitHub Actions can usually be triggered manually later rather than rebuilt elsewhere.
GitHub FAQ
Why do git pushes fail while github.com loads fine?
Git operations, the web UI, API, and Actions are separate GitHub components that fail independently — their status page lists each one. Push failures with a working website usually mean a Git-backend incident, so retrying beats reconfiguring your remote.
GitHub Actions is stuck — is GitHub down?
Actions is GitHub’s most incident-prone component; queued jobs that never start typically reflect an Actions capacity incident rather than anything in your workflow file. Jobs generally process automatically once the backlog clears — avoid mass-cancelling.
Is GitHub down for everyone or just me?
We test GitHub (https://github.com) live from our own servers. If our check succeeds but you still can't connect, the outage is probably local to you — try another network or device, clear your cache, or check GitHub's official status channels.
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