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The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
GitHub experienced a 7 hour and 47 minute outage on August 17 caused by capacity failures in its Central US data center during peak traffic. The incident disrupted services including authentication, Copilot, GitHub Actions, and APIs.
Why it matters
Outages prevent developers and organizations from shipping software or managing their code, potentially delaying projects and impacting productivity.
The details
- Monthly commits grew from 1.4 billion in April to 2.9 billion.
- Azure now serves roughly 58% of GitHub's platform load.
- GitHub is applying consistent retry limits and variable timeouts across service interactions.
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