GitHub reveals root cause of nearly 8-hour outage

GitHub's post-incident report says the August 17 outage lasted 7 hours 47 minutes, affecting Issues, PRs, APIs, Actions and Copilot, after US-central datacenter infrastructure failed to auto-scale during peak traffic.

2026-08-19 ~ 2026-08-21 · 2 related posts

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