Is GitHub Issues down?
GitHub Issues is up
Right now
No. GitHub Issues: no incidents reported.
Last checked (2026-10-10 07:16 UTC) from www.githubstatus.com · every 60s
For agents
proceed
Proceed.
GET upbutler.com/status/github/issues/status.agent.json
MCP: upstream_status {"service":"github","component":"issues"}
Issues, projects and discussions.
Part of GitHub status.
What GitHub says
Operational
Taken as is from GitHub's own status page API. Incident titles and component names below are theirs. Narrowed to what concerns GitHub Issues.
Open www.githubstatus.comWhat UpButler measured
API edge is answeringHTTP 200 · 224 ms
One request without credentials to api.github.com every two minutes, from eu-central (one location, not a global view). An answer shows the edge, TLS and routing work. It does not prove that authenticated calls succeed. The probe is for GitHub as a whole, not for GitHub Issues specifically.
Checked · up since 2026-10-10 01:23 UTC
GitHub Issues: what GitHub lists
1 operational
- IssuesOperational
GitHub Issues incidents, last 90 days
- 2026-07-13: no record
- 2026-07-14: no record
- 2026-07-15: no record
- 2026-07-16: no record
- 2026-07-17: no record
- 2026-07-18: no record
- 2026-07-19: no record
- 2026-07-20: no record
- 2026-07-21: no record
- 2026-07-22: no record
- 2026-07-23: no record
- 2026-07-24: no record
- 2026-07-25: no record
- 2026-07-26: no record
- 2026-07-27: no record
- 2026-07-28: no record
- 2026-07-29: no record
- 2026-07-30: no record
- 2026-07-31: no record
- 2026-08-01: no record
- 2026-08-02: no record
- 2026-08-03: no record
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- 2026-08-16: no record
- 2026-08-17: no record
- 2026-08-18: no record
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- 2026-08-31: no record
- 2026-09-01: no record
- 2026-09-02: no record
- 2026-09-03: no record
- 2026-09-04: no record
- 2026-09-05: no record
- 2026-09-06: no record
- 2026-09-07: no record
- 2026-09-08: no record
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- 2026-09-10: no record
- 2026-09-11: no record
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- 2026-09-14: no record
- 2026-09-15: no record
- 2026-09-16: no record
- 2026-09-17: no record
- 2026-09-18: no record
- 2026-09-19: no record
- 2026-09-20: no record
- 2026-09-21: no record
- 2026-09-22: no record
- 2026-09-23: no record
- 2026-09-24: no record
- 2026-09-25: no record
- 2026-09-26: no record
- 2026-09-27: no record
- 2026-09-28: no record
- 2026-09-29: no record
- 2026-09-30: no record
- 2026-10-01: no record
- 2026-10-02: no record
- 2026-10-03: no record
- 2026-10-04: no record
- 2026-10-05: no record
- 2026-10-06: no record
- 2026-10-07: critical incident
- 2026-10-08: no incident reported
- 2026-10-09: no incident reported
- 2026-10-10: no incident reported
Each bar is a day, coloured by the worst incident GitHub reported for GitHub Issues. It is their incident record, not a measurement of uptime.
- Incidents
- 2
- 2 major or critical
- Typical time to resolve
- —
- median, needs 3 incidents
- Nine in ten within
- —
- 90th percentile
- Longest
- 1 h 10 min
- record since 2026-10-07
| Started (UTC) | Incident | Impact | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests | critical | 48 min | |
| Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions | critical | 1 h 10 min |
Get alerted when GitHub Issues goes down
No account. One email when GitHub reports an incident that affects GitHub Issues, one when it is over. You confirm the address first, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
Or follow the RSS feed. On UpButler? Add GitHub as a dependency to route it to Slack, Teams or a webhook.
Status badge
Show GitHub Issues's current status in a README or an internal wiki. It updates by itself.
[](https://upbutler.com/status/github/issues)Tell your outage from GitHub's
Declare that your project depends on GitHub Issues. When one of your monitors fails while GitHub has an incident that began around the same time, UpButler tags your incident "likely upstream" with their incident linked, says so in the alert and the AI report, and tells your on-call agent not to change code.
npx upbutler init finds the dependency from your env var names and packages. The catalog, dependencies and upstream-aware incidents are on every plan, including Free.
# upbutler.yaml
dependencies:
- service: github
components: ["Issues"]curl -s https://upbutler.com/status/github/issues/status.agent.json{
"schema": "upbutler.upstream-status/v1",
"service": "github",
"component": {
"slug": "issues",
"name": "GitHub Issues"
},
"verdict": "proceed",
"status": "operational",
"reason": "GitHub Issues: no incidents reported",
"retryAfterSec": null,
"incident": null,
"probe": {
"state": "up",
"statusCode": 200
}
}Questions
- Is GitHub Issues down right now?
- No. As of 2026-10-10 07:16 UTC, GitHub Issues is up. This page reads the status again every 60 seconds.
- Where does this status come from?
- From GitHub's own status page API at https://www.githubstatus.com. UpButler reads it once for everyone (not once per visitor) every 60 seconds with conditional requests, and shows it unchanged: incident titles and component names are GitHub's words. Their page covers more than this page shows; it is narrowed to the parts that concern GitHub Issues.
- What does UpButler's own GitHub check prove?
- Every two minutes UpButler sends one request without credentials to the GitHub API edge (api.github.com) from eu-central. Any answer from the edge, usually HTTP 200, shows that DNS, TLS and routing work from there. It does not prove that authenticated requests succeed, and it is one location, not a global view. It is most useful when it fails before their status page changes; the page then says so.
- Can I get an alert when GitHub Issues goes down?
- Yes, without an account: enter your email on this page, confirm the link we send, and you get one email when GitHub reports an incident that affects GitHub Issues and one when it is over. There is also an RSS feed at https://upbutler.com/status/github/feed.rss. Teams on UpButler can route the same alert to Slack, Teams or a webhook.
- How can my agent or app check GitHub Issues status?
- Fetch https://upbutler.com/status/github/issues/status.agent.json: a small JSON document with a verdict (proceed, retry, fallback or pause) and retryAfterSec. No key is needed. The same answer is an MCP tool, upstream_status {"service":"github","component":"issues"}, on https://upbutler.com/mcp/public.
- How do I know whether an outage is mine or GitHub's?
- Add "github" to the dependencies of your UpButler workspace. When one of your monitors fails while GitHub has an incident that began around the same time, your incident is tagged "likely upstream" with their incident linked, and your on-call agent is told not to change code.
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