# GitHub is experiencing elevated error rates

- Provider: [Railway](https://down.guide/railway)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Major outage
- lasted 2h 45m
- started 2026-08-17 13:30 UTC
- GitHub - Auto-Deploys, US East (Virginia, USA), US West (California, USA) +2
- apac, eu, us
- id: DWN-b3e7ecf6a8
- Official page: https://status.railway.com/incident/W4MIGEVT

## Updates from Railway
### 2026-08-17 13:59 UTC: investigating
Automatic deployments, pr environments, and anything relating to GitHub may be heavily delayed or fail. 
They are currently investigating this issue. https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx

### 2026-08-17 16:46 UTC: identified
GitHub has identified the issue and is working on a fix.

### 2026-08-17 19:52 UTC: monitoring
GitHub has seen slight recovery and is monitoring results before resolving.

### 2026-08-17 21:29 UTC: resolved
GitHub is reporting that they're fully operational again.

---
down.guide reads providers' official status pages every minute and adds its own evidence, always labeled. Free, no account. Agents: MCP at https://down.guide/mcp, REST at https://down.guide/api/v1, feeds at https://down.guide/feed. Built by Sazabi (https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=down-guide&utm_medium=markdown).