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GitHub outage on Aug 17 caused by capacity failure during peak traffic, says GitHub

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GitHub attributed its August 17 outage, which lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes, to a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center. The outage impacted the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services, with GitHub confirming the issue at 13:40 UTC.

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  1. Techmeme
    Microsoft says GitHub is down worldwide, with its website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services impacted; GitHub confirmed the outage at 13:40 UTC (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

    Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer : Microsoft says GitHub is down worldwide, with its website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services impacted; GitHub confirmed the outage at 13:40 UTC — GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services.

  2. Techmeme
    GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)

    Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog : GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center — An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability. — On August 17, GitHub experienced an outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes.