Is GitHub down? Official status page, recent incidents and alerts
GitHub publishes its incidents on its own status page at www.githubstatus.com. That page, not a third-party guess, is the first place to look when GitHub seems to be failing for you. The same page publishes a feed, so you can be told about a new incident instead of discovering it from an angry customer.
Official status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/
Latest incident headlines
The 4 most recent entries in GitHub's feed when this page was built on 2026-11-08. Headlines only; each link goes to the vendor's own incident page, where the full timeline lives.
| Date | Headline |
|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | Incident with Actions |
| 2026-11-07 | Incident with Actions and Pages |
| 2026-11-06 | Incident with Git Operations |
| 2026-11-06 | Degraded performance for multiple GitHub services |
Get an alert when GitHub posts an incident
- Paid, set up by hand: Keencrest's outage alerts post each new GitHub incident and each update to it to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord or email. $9 a month for up to 25 vendors, $29 a month for all 70 we can read.
- Free way: point an RSS trigger at the feed address below. n8n (RSS Feed Trigger), Make (Watch RSS feed items) and Slack's RSS app all keep track of items already delivered, so repeats are not sent twice.
Feed address:https://www.githubstatus.com/history.atom - Ready-made n8n workflow, no Apify needed: RSS feed to Slack or Discord. Import it, paste the feed address above into its first node and your webhook into its last.
What this page is not
This page is not a live checker. It does not test GitHub for you, and the table above is a snapshot from 2026-11-08, so it may already be out of date. Vendors can be slow to acknowledge an outage, and a problem on your network or account will never show on a status page. For the current state, open the official page linked above.