GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?(isgithubcooked.com)
270 points by toomanyrichies 14 days ago | 187 comments
tl;dr: A custom dashboard filters GitHub's incident history by service and severity, letting users define their own reliability thresholds rather than relying on a single overall status. The data shows GitHub has logged 1,128 incidents since March 2016, averaging 24.3 per month over the last quarter, with the longest incident-free streak being just 8 days.
HN Discussion:
  • ~GitHub deserves sympathy given massive AI-driven traffic growth they're managing
  • GitHub is systemically failing and users are actively looking to migrate away
  • Microsoft/GitHub leadership should have foreseen LLM-driven load and failed the platform through negligence or greed
  • The article contains a basic math error in its incident rate calculation
  • Secondary services like Actions and Copilot disproportionately drive the instability shown in the data