GitHub is down

33 points·keehun··14 comments

Is Github down for you?

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Yep. GH is down as of a few minutes ago: https://status.github.com/ (see "app server availability").

For what it's worth, it's trivial to write a status check of your own using the GH API (https://status.github.com/api).

The first thing I do when github is down is check hacker news to see if I am the only one. heh.

I checked their status page which didn't reflect what I was experiencing, and nothing was on their twitter feed, so I wanted to check if anyone else was experiencing it.

They seem to have a seperate twitter for this sort of thing: https://twitter.com/githubstatus

There's usually a delay on these things.

their twitter status page just updated within the last minute finally. I was checking both

https://twitter.com/githubstatus/with_replies

https://status.github.com/

Status pages are typically human-controlled for the sake of outwardly keeping within SLAs and as to not sound the klaxons for a 5s blip.

According to @githubstatus they're experiencing major service outages.

https://status.github.com/messages :/

Site is down and also pulls and pushes are affected too.

ssh connection to github servers is also not working.

ssh -T git@github.com

Now it's back!

Down in Boston, MA

Down for me in Jupiter, FL.

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