# GitHub incident is causing elevated error rate for environments

- Provider: [Gitpod](https://down.guide/providers/gitpod)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Degraded
- lasted 2h 46m
- started 2026-08-17 15:02 UTC
- id: DWN-7f5e313c50
- Official page: https://onastatus.com/incidents/01M083X4TKZP6H42EYSSHGB9EX

## Updates from Gitpod
### 2026-08-17 15:02 UTC: investigating
GitHub originated incident is resulting in environments being unable to checkout content, webhooks for automations are not being delivered.

### 2026-08-17 16:02 UTC: monitoring
GitHub continues to be affected with many of their services degraded - \[https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx\](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx "https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx").
Ona environments and agent sessions using GitHub are impacted.

### 2026-08-17 17:06 UTC: monitoring
GitHub has indicated the issue has been resolved, we're seeing improvements to the error rate and continue to observe.

### 2026-08-17 17:47 UTC: resolved
We're no longer seeing degradation when interacting with GitHub.

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