GitHub is back online after a two-hour outage


Microsoft-owned GitHub experienced a more than two-hour long outage today, affecting thousands or potentially millions of developers that rely on its many services. GitHub started experiencing issues at around 3:45PM ET, with Git operations, API requests, GitHub actions, packages, pages, and pull requests all affected.
“We’re investigating errors affecting most GitHub services,” said an incident update on the GitHub status page. “We’re actively investigating and will provide an update as soon as possible.”
While Git operations, API requests, webhooks, pull requests, GitHub actions, GitHub packages, and GitHub pages were down for more than two hours, these services are now fully back online.
GitHub is now home to more than 73 million…