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Daily and weekly recaps

What broke August 17 to August 23, 2026

Week 34: the week's outages across every provider down.guide reads, in UTC.

incidents
530+
major outages
17
hours of downtime
390+
16d 10h
Down Index

The week's worst, by score

Scored 0 to 100 from impact, breadth, reach, duration and acknowledgement.

  1. GitHub PagesMajor outagePostmortem
    Incident with GitHub.com
    lasted 7h 36mGit Operations, Webhooks, API Requests +5us
  2. RailwayMajor outage
    GitHub is experiencing elevated error rates
    lasted 2h 45mGitHub - Auto-Deploys, US East (Virginia, USA), US West (California, USA) +2apac, eu, us
  3. AnthropicPartial outage
    Elevated errors on requests to multiple models
    lasted 26mclaude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code +1
  4. RailwayMajor outage
    Deployments and builds stopped (record added Nov 5)
    lasted 2h 15mUS East (Virginia, USA), US West (California, USA), EU West (Amsterdam, Netherlands) +1apac, eu, us
  5. GitHubMajor outagePostmortem
    Intermittent failures creating agent tasks
    lasted 9h 54mus