A capacity blip at GitHub resulted in an outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes. The infrastructure recovered faster than the clients let it. 😬 What actually happened GitHub experienced issues on August 17, 2026, from 13:28 to 21:15 UTC. Users were facing problems with Git operations, Actions, Issues, PRs, and Copilot. The error rate for Web and API traffic was around 20%, while for archive and raw-content downloads it was approximately 50%. The root cause of the issue was alm...