The GitHub Outage: How AI-Native SASE Visibility Turns Disruption into Decision
On August 17, 2026 at 13:40 UTC, GitHub first publicly logged that it was investigating elevated errors and latency issues, later reporting broad impact across web and API traffic, Git operations, Actions, Pull Requests, Issues, Pages, Webhooks, and identity-related services. The outage had significant implications for development teams. When GitHub degrades, developer workflows can stop quickly.