GitHub availability report: August 2026

GitHub availability report: August 2026 Jakub Oleksy · @jakuboleksy September 9, 2026 | 16 minutes Share: While we continue to make progress, August proved to be a challenging month for availability. You can read more about these incidents in a blog post we published last month.

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• Jakub Oleksy · @jakuboleksy September 9, 2026 | 16 minutes Share: While we continue to make progress, August proved to be a challenging month for availability.
• You can read more about these incidents in a blog post we published last month.
• We are aggressively investing in both architectural improvements and moving to Azure, which will give us more capacity.
• Meanwhile, we continue to see significant growth on our platform.
• We are prioritizing the most impactful work while minimizing risk, but as these incidents in August show, we cannot completely eliminate risk.
• Ultimately, all the work needs to be done, and incidents give us an opportunity to adjust our priorities.