GitHub Suffers Major Outage, Services Gradually Restoring

GitHub, the widely used code repository and developer platform, experienced significant disruption on Wednesday, affecting its website and numerous services. The company has attributed the outage to a "database infrastructure change" and is currently rolling back the change to restore normal functionality.

Initially, accessing the main GitHub website resulted in an error message stating "no server is currently available to service your request," accompanied by an image of an angry unicorn. However, the website has since become accessible again. Further issues reported by GitHub include disruptions to pull requests, GitHub Pages, Copilot, and the GitHub API.

The incident escalated quickly. GitHub's first status update was posted at 7:11 PM ET, followed by reports of problems with multiple services in subsequent minutes. Reports from users on Downdetector surpassed 10,000, indicating a widespread disruption. The internet monitoring service NetBlocks also confirmed the "international outages" experienced by GitHub at 7:13 PM.

While GitHub has not yet provided a statement, the company is actively working to restore its services to full functionality. Users can monitor the situation and receive updates via GitHub's official status website.

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