GitHub outage cause: Developer platform reports ‘high error rates’ and API problems; Microsoft says ‘we are currently…’

GitHub, a platform extensively used by developers, experienced widespread outages across multiple services on Monday morning, according to user reports on Downdetector. The company's status page confirmed it was grappling with high error rates and actively working to resolve the issues. Problems spanned API requests, pull requests, webhooks, and Copilot, potentially affecting users utilizing the platform for AI coding assistance.

The latest update from GitHub, posted at 11:42 a.m. EDT, indicated a 20% error rate for web traffic and an alarming 50% error rate for archive and content downloads. The status page reported "Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate," while the overall status was marked as degraded. The incident follows another significant outage affecting a Microsoft platform in recent weeks, with Xbox services also impacted.

Users can check GitHub's official service status page for real-time updates on ongoing incidents and affected services. Some users encountered server errors while trying to access GitHub, while others faced difficulties loading commits, repositories, and Pull Request pages. GitHub Actions faced reduced performance, implying potential disruptions to automated CI/CD workflows.

While Git Operations, Packages, Pages, and Codespaces were operational, several critical components of GitHub were experiencing degradation. No definitive cause for the outage has been identified, but the incident is the second significant disruption affecting a Microsoft platform in recent weeks, following the earlier Xbox services disruption.