Every time one of these vibe coded meme sites gets posted there’re endless comments about how it’s not actually because of load, the GitHub team is shit, their tech stack is shit, Microsoft is shit, Azure is shit, etc.
Just compare the GitHub status page for public GitHub vs the enterprise cloud pages.
Enterprise has much better numbers and I’ve personally can’t remember the last time there was an outage that prevented me from doing work.
If the problems didn’t revolve around load, I’d expect to see the same uptime problems reflected on the enterprise offering.
What do you mean by enterprise cloud? The default GitHub enterprise cloud plan is hosted on the same infra as “public github.” Do you have a link to what you mean?
> the GitHub team is shit, their tech stack is shit
1) Criticism of being unable to achieve service is not a fault of the individual; it simply is a fault of the system. You can criticise the system, it's permissible. Especially if they have more resources than many countries and some of the best tech talent in the world on staff.
2) Their tech stack is shit, and they've gone on record for years defending it, quite arrogantly in some cases, as if nobody can possibly know anything unless they've done github (even if you've done things which scale, or someone comes in with an even larger scale, the people on HN will happily say "but it's not github" which is valid but not intellectually curious or open).
Azure is terrible and it's being foisted on the team: even if they found some technical people to put at the top who are saying it'll be ok: it is a pretty cruel platform to use.
I've personally had a few conversations about their choice of relational database which were handled pretty defensively, and I think we're all somewhat cognisant of their frontend rewrite.
It's a waste of time to rewrite the UI and push AI tools when you can't even keep the site lit.
I have nothing against the engineers- I don't know why people keep chiming in as if we're punching down at "lowly engineers" when the reality is that it's a management failure of the highest order.
They're a billion-dollar company owned by a trillion-dollar one... it's very hard to "punch down" at this system: nobody is going after the engineer, we're punching the fact that the system that is a defacto monopoly due to network effects is putting new features or pleasing their owners over the core offering.. How is that an engineering failure? That's an active choice by management.
Contrast between official [0] and third party status pages [1] is huge. How their terms of service for SLA are legal if they are so different from real world usage of their product? I really like GitHub and their services but every time when it’s broken and their status page is green something screams inside me.
> How their terms of service for SLA are legal if they are so different from real world usage of their product?
Because the SLA likely doesn't consider some features of GitHub under the SLA, whereas an outage/issues for a single model is seen as problem on the Third Party page.
yup! When i did an analysis last month, GitHub is up 89.3% on weekdays and 96.5% on weekends. Incidents touch 62% of weekdays and 11% of weekends. Claude shows the same pattern: 92.5% weekday, 97.8% weekend. Tuesday through Thursday is the danger zone. Sunday is practically a different service.
The missing status page [1] treats it as downtime any time any component of the system is down, and calculates the overall uptime based on the time that doesn't overlap with any individual category outages, and the overall downtime as any time overlapping with at least one individual category outage to avoid double-counting They show 24h of minor outage on that date.
I'm guessing that this site is taking the downtime in a given day across all services and adding it up, which would mean the worst possible day has 10 days of downtime (a day of downtime for each major category).
I see a bullet point for "1.0 days of 1.3 days", and when I mouse over the previous day (Wedensday 2025-11-19), I see "7.8 hours of 1.3 days".
I haven't actually checked any sources to confirm there really was downtime on those days, but if we assume those numbers are true 7.8 hours + 1 day is about 1.3 days.
Really? A 10 minute interaction with the platform was enough to inform me that no serious engineer is in charge, and no serious engineer chooses this platform.
It is a platform for CFOs to avoid having another vendor relationship.
You can let people organize/filter them into groups based on the stack they use and provide email/discord/slack notifications if any of these form their groups change their status.
Interesting. I'm in EU and see these constantly but usually in the afternoon so it bothers me less as I'm already wrapping up, but my US coworkers are getting hit much worse.
I also bet my money on Azure. Someone who allegedly worked there recently posted an article here on the numerous problems with Azure. Sadly I didn’t bookmark it.
I don't really understand why this is happening at this scale, it's not like they just became broke and can't afford a proper server... can someone explain?
The faster you move, the more you screw up, almost no company producing software have figured out how to move fast and not screw up. It's so hard, that companies even used to boast about how much they didn't care about screwing up, as long as they moved fast.
Add in new "productivity" tools that help you move even faster, with even less regards for how much you screw up (even though the tool could be used for you to move at the same speed, but with less screw ups), and an engineering culture which boils down to "Why not?", and you get platforms run by Microsoft that are unable to achieve two nines of reliability.
Agents are shipping code faster all over the world and in some cases 24 hours a day. Additionally, some significant number of non-developers are now developers i.e. they are also shipping to github regularly.
This is not limited to just pushing code but all the bells and whistles that github added as features under the assumption of some predictable growth are now exceeding the original plans.
I suspect a lot of their existing systems have to be re-architected for unanticipated scale, and it won't happen overnight for sure.
Pretty damning. Would also be interesting to see the number of commits overlayed. The graph tells a great story about the correlation with MS's takeover, but I wonder if at the same time that uptime went to shit, MS was shifting over large numbers of enterprise contracts to github. That would be a more complete story IMO.
None of which excuses this. Can you imagine someone's reaction in 2017 if you told them that github would be below 90% uptime in 2026? It would be unimaginable.
That’s nonsense. GitHub didn’t have 100% uptime before 2020. I remember downtime back then. And Microsoft didn’t make changes that fast. The only thing that changed is the accuracy of their status page.
Also go back and look at the unofficial status page from 3 years ago. It’s regularly above 99% and has been dropping steadily since then. Then in the last 3 months has dropped to below 85%.
That doesn’t track because GitHub Enterprise Cloud has great uptime. This is all load based, vibe coded ai slop code shipped at record numbers from users who will never convert to paid. The real question is what are they doing about that?
Or even both. In any kind of continuous deployment, you'd expect outages at the point of deployment, or shortly thereafter as the unintended consequences ripple.
Then the load during the working days makes those ripples larger and into outages.
Most outages are caused by changes by humans ("actors"?), very rarely are things "People just dig our stuff so much we can't keep up" but more often "We didn't think about this performance drawback when we built thing X, now it's hurting us", and of course, more outages when you try to fix those issues without fully considering the scope and impact.
At least as of when I left the company, GitHub was being deployed to fairly close to once every 60-90 minutes (the frequency of a deploy train/merge queue batch going out) 24 hours a day, at least during weekdays… there are a fair number of international engineers and deploy trains get crowded during main US business hours, so while there are fewer PRs going out at odd hours US time, there were typically still some. There aren’t dedicated releases as such for GitHub-hosted instances - everything you release needs to be gated behind a feature flag or other mechanism if it’s not going live immediately, and your code either needs to handle the database in both its pre- and post-migrated state, or you need to run the migration in advance of your code shipping out.
Fun fact: it used to be the case that GitHub was actually _less_ reliable if nobody deployed to it… there used to be various resource leaks that we didn’t see when people were deploying all day, since then the app wasn’t getting restarted constantly. After GitHub went down during a holiday break we had volunteers to deploy GitHub once a day during holiday breaks, until the underlying issues were eventually fixed.
$250k can do a good job of easing meme-induced pain.
"survive underwater" what a joke. Yes, there will be good engineers there who will be sad to see it go this way, but they choose to be there, get paid better than 99% of humanity for that.
This website has no overused ai-generated animations and... I quite enjoy it. The original website[1] has a fade-in animation, big round cards, shadows, all the jazz you can think of, it's there.
This site is very readable, very honest and sober. I don't need to sift through buzzwords to figure out tiny details.
Every time one of these vibe coded meme sites gets posted there’re endless comments about how it’s not actually because of load, the GitHub team is shit, their tech stack is shit, Microsoft is shit, Azure is shit, etc.
Just compare the GitHub status page for public GitHub vs the enterprise cloud pages.
Enterprise has much better numbers and I’ve personally can’t remember the last time there was an outage that prevented me from doing work.
If the problems didn’t revolve around load, I’d expect to see the same uptime problems reflected on the enterprise offering.
What do you mean by enterprise cloud? The default GitHub enterprise cloud plan is hosted on the same infra as “public github.” Do you have a link to what you mean?
> the GitHub team is shit, their tech stack is shit
1) Criticism of being unable to achieve service is not a fault of the individual; it simply is a fault of the system. You can criticise the system, it's permissible. Especially if they have more resources than many countries and some of the best tech talent in the world on staff.
2) Their tech stack is shit, and they've gone on record for years defending it, quite arrogantly in some cases, as if nobody can possibly know anything unless they've done github (even if you've done things which scale, or someone comes in with an even larger scale, the people on HN will happily say "but it's not github" which is valid but not intellectually curious or open).
Azure is terrible and it's being foisted on the team: even if they found some technical people to put at the top who are saying it'll be ok: it is a pretty cruel platform to use.
I've personally had a few conversations about their choice of relational database which were handled pretty defensively, and I think we're all somewhat cognisant of their frontend rewrite.
It's a waste of time to rewrite the UI and push AI tools when you can't even keep the site lit.
I have nothing against the engineers- I don't know why people keep chiming in as if we're punching down at "lowly engineers" when the reality is that it's a management failure of the highest order.
They're a billion-dollar company owned by a trillion-dollar one... it's very hard to "punch down" at this system: nobody is going after the engineer, we're punching the fact that the system that is a defacto monopoly due to network effects is putting new features or pleasing their owners over the core offering.. How is that an engineering failure? That's an active choice by management.
> Disruption with Gemini 2.5 Pro model
> Disruption with Grok Code Fast 1 in Copilot
> Incident with Copilot Grok Code Fast 1
> Claude Opus 4 is experiencing degraded performance
It doesn't seem fair to blame Github for this? There's nothing they can do about it?
Contrast between official [0] and third party status pages [1] is huge. How their terms of service for SLA are legal if they are so different from real world usage of their product? I really like GitHub and their services but every time when it’s broken and their status page is green something screams inside me.
[0] https://www.githubstatus.com/ [1] https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
> How their terms of service for SLA are legal if they are so different from real world usage of their product?
Because the SLA likely doesn't consider some features of GitHub under the SLA, whereas an outage/issues for a single model is seen as problem on the Third Party page.
Weekends are the untapped frontier. Still room to scale.
change is the biggest cause then?
Or usage
Wait until they go 996!
yup! When i did an analysis last month, GitHub is up 89.3% on weekdays and 96.5% on weekends. Incidents touch 62% of weekdays and 11% of weekends. Claude shows the same pattern: 92.5% weekday, 97.8% weekend. Tuesday through Thursday is the danger zone. Sunday is practically a different service.
https://www.aakash.io/tech-chase/github-and-claude-are-down-...
This idea has been around!
I made this one in January to help slice and dice uptime by incident category.
https://isgithubcooked.com
A graph I have to question is even accurate.
> Across 170 days with at least one incident · worst day Thu, Nov 20, 2025 (1.1 days)
1.1 days total how is that possible? Scrolling over that day doesn't indicate the math behind the scenes - 1.3 hours single bullet point.
Also Nov 19 has a bullet point 1.3 day outage but total is 8.1 hours
The missing status page [1] treats it as downtime any time any component of the system is down, and calculates the overall uptime based on the time that doesn't overlap with any individual category outages, and the overall downtime as any time overlapping with at least one individual category outage to avoid double-counting They show 24h of minor outage on that date.
I'm guessing that this site is taking the downtime in a given day across all services and adding it up, which would mean the worst possible day has 10 days of downtime (a day of downtime for each major category).
1: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
I see a bullet point for "1.0 days of 1.3 days", and when I mouse over the previous day (Wedensday 2025-11-19), I see "7.8 hours of 1.3 days".
I haven't actually checked any sources to confirm there really was downtime on those days, but if we assume those numbers are true 7.8 hours + 1 day is about 1.3 days.
I didn't know azure was this bad, completely changed my opinion on their cloud offerings
Really? A 10 minute interaction with the platform was enough to inform me that no serious engineer is in charge, and no serious engineer chooses this platform.
It is a platform for CFOs to avoid having another vendor relationship.
I know that there was a plan to move GitHub to Azure, but I don't know what the status is.
It could very well be, that GitHub is not running on Azure yet.
Far fewer outages during the weekends. Perfect, wasn't gonna do any work then anyway.
This is one of the most creative idea I've seen this year. Tasteful and clever. Bravo!
Funny to see this closely match contribution graphs with effectively no downtime on weekends.
Would be funny if you host it on github pages.
If anyone wants a aggregated status page for github, cloud & AI services.
https://status-page.org/
You can let people organize/filter them into groups based on the stack they use and provide email/discord/slack notifications if any of these form their groups change their status.
For 30th of April, 2026 it shows it was down 1.0 days of 2.6 days (minor incident) :)
Setup my self-hosted Forgejo last night. Very pleased so far.
Yeah me too. I moved all my public projects to codeberg and my internal repos to self-hosted forgejo.
Hosting forgejo is really easy as well. It being a single binary makes it really easy to handle with almost zero maintenance.
Interesting, no outages on weekends
I wonder how well this corolates with azure incidents. Especially for the US regions.
I live in Europe. I've not noticed these constant outages. But I only use GitHub after work.
Interesting. I'm in EU and see these constantly but usually in the afternoon so it bothers me less as I'm already wrapping up, but my US coworkers are getting hit much worse.
I also bet my money on Azure. Someone who allegedly worked there recently posted an article here on the numerous problems with Azure. Sadly I didn’t bookmark it.
The article you are thinking of was likely written by Axel Rietschin who worked on Azure core compute team.
https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...
HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242
Wow. Yikes. I never liked Azure, but this level of dysfunction is just astonishing.
I don't really understand why this is happening at this scale, it's not like they just became broke and can't afford a proper server... can someone explain?
See previous days articles. Agentic coding. Going from 1b annual commits to estimated 14b or more from one year to another.
The faster you move, the more you screw up, almost no company producing software have figured out how to move fast and not screw up. It's so hard, that companies even used to boast about how much they didn't care about screwing up, as long as they moved fast.
Add in new "productivity" tools that help you move even faster, with even less regards for how much you screw up (even though the tool could be used for you to move at the same speed, but with less screw ups), and an engineering culture which boils down to "Why not?", and you get platforms run by Microsoft that are unable to achieve two nines of reliability.
ai
Agents are shipping code faster all over the world and in some cases 24 hours a day. Additionally, some significant number of non-developers are now developers i.e. they are also shipping to github regularly.
This is not limited to just pushing code but all the bells and whistles that github added as features under the assumption of some predictable growth are now exceeding the original plans.
I suspect a lot of their existing systems have to be re-architected for unanticipated scale, and it won't happen overnight for sure.
They were sucking 5 years ago before agents existed. I don’t think this has anything to do with recent changes.
https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/
Whoa, if that is even remotely accurate then the talk about agents is a complete red herring.
If I remember correctly the status page was not precise before the acquisition - so take with a big grain of salt the 100% pre-acquisition values
Pretty damning. Would also be interesting to see the number of commits overlayed. The graph tells a great story about the correlation with MS's takeover, but I wonder if at the same time that uptime went to shit, MS was shifting over large numbers of enterprise contracts to github. That would be a more complete story IMO.
None of which excuses this. Can you imagine someone's reaction in 2017 if you told them that github would be below 90% uptime in 2026? It would be unimaginable.
That’s nonsense. GitHub didn’t have 100% uptime before 2020. I remember downtime back then. And Microsoft didn’t make changes that fast. The only thing that changed is the accuracy of their status page.
Also go back and look at the unofficial status page from 3 years ago. It’s regularly above 99% and has been dropping steadily since then. Then in the last 3 months has dropped to below 85%.
They’re on track to 30x volume yoy by their own words
I suspect it’s caused because Microsoft is using buggy Microsoft tech instead of the original stack.
They’re making political decisions based on what they sell vs what’s actually useful for their use case.
It’s kind of impossible to find out if this is true though.
That doesn’t track because GitHub Enterprise Cloud has great uptime. This is all load based, vibe coded ai slop code shipped at record numbers from users who will never convert to paid. The real question is what are they doing about that?
Most of the outages are actually the unavailability of single AI models, not the core service.
Would be interesting to see if this correlated with their release cycles.
Well, outages seem to be distributed across all days except weekends. So this seems like people fucking around with stuff being a major factor.
Surely it just means more people working, resulting in more load, resulting in more outages?
Or even both. In any kind of continuous deployment, you'd expect outages at the point of deployment, or shortly thereafter as the unintended consequences ripple.
Then the load during the working days makes those ripples larger and into outages.
Most outages are caused by changes by humans ("actors"?), very rarely are things "People just dig our stuff so much we can't keep up" but more often "We didn't think about this performance drawback when we built thing X, now it's hurting us", and of course, more outages when you try to fix those issues without fully considering the scope and impact.
At least as of when I left the company, GitHub was being deployed to fairly close to once every 60-90 minutes (the frequency of a deploy train/merge queue batch going out) 24 hours a day, at least during weekdays… there are a fair number of international engineers and deploy trains get crowded during main US business hours, so while there are fewer PRs going out at odd hours US time, there were typically still some. There aren’t dedicated releases as such for GitHub-hosted instances - everything you release needs to be gated behind a feature flag or other mechanism if it’s not going live immediately, and your code either needs to handle the database in both its pre- and post-migrated state, or you need to run the migration in advance of your code shipping out.
Fun fact: it used to be the case that GitHub was actually _less_ reliable if nobody deployed to it… there used to be various resource leaks that we didn’t see when people were deploying all day, since then the app wasn’t getting restarted constantly. After GitHub went down during a holiday break we had volunteers to deploy GitHub once a day during holiday breaks, until the underlying issues were eventually fixed.
This design is perfect irony. I love it.
I like this more than I expected. The intensity gradient is a nice touch too.
The memes are really painful now. I feel for the team that's is trying to survive underwater.
With management screaming down their necks:
YOU NEED TO USE MOAR AI!
$250k can do a good job of easing meme-induced pain.
"survive underwater" what a joke. Yes, there will be good engineers there who will be sad to see it go this way, but they choose to be there, get paid better than 99% of humanity for that.
Guess where AI Coding entered the picture
It is funny how weekends are almost always up!
All these companies brag about being hyperscalers and cannot scale github.
Similarly, i see google releasing advancement after advancement in LLM yet i see antigravity sub where people are crying all time.
double entendre: Is it load based or github-employee based that weekends are sparser.
or just a multifactor of both.
Yes
Didn't they blame "AI" for the increased load? I'm not sure why AI usage would be more during the week than the weekend, but it could be.
It does look like Friday outages were a bit rarer, which could be due to having a "no deployments on Friday" rule.
From the chart it seems they should have policy to deploy on weekends only.
can you correlate this to data on # of commits, actions, etc?
Well done.
Another reminder that a self hosted git repository would have more uptime than GitHub and centralizing everything to GitHub was a very bad idea. [0]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
"Good job, Microsoft, amazing uptime."
Clearly their team needs more LLM usage.
Please tell me this makes sense
This website has no overused ai-generated animations and... I quite enjoy it. The original website[1] has a fade-in animation, big round cards, shadows, all the jazz you can think of, it's there.
This site is very readable, very honest and sober. I don't need to sift through buzzwords to figure out tiny details.
Thank you, OP!
1: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/