GitHub outage on 6 November 2026
GitHub: our direct checks failed for 10 min from 15:24 UTC; the official status page stayed operational.
Measured from one checker location: Vigil's server at Hetzner in Falkenstein, Germany, with no second region to confirm it. A failure seen from Germany is strong evidence of a problem, not proof that every user was affected.
15:24–15:34 UTC · 10 min
- What we checked
- GitHub's REST API root (api.github.com)
- First failed check
- 06 Nov 2026, 15:24 UTC
- First passing check after it
- 06 Nov 2026, 15:34 UTC
- Failed checks in a row
- 2
- Error we recorded
- HTTP 504
- Official status page
- Stayed operational in all 19 polls from 30 min before the episode to 60 min after it ended. Their status page keeps the incident history.
How this was measured
Every 5 minutes Vigil makes one HTTPS request to GitHub directly and, separately, reads GitHub's official status page. An episode is 2 or more failed direct checks in a row; it is published only when fewer than 3 other services failed at the same moment (otherwise the problem was probably on our side). Times are accurate to about 5 minutes. Full rules and the 90-day table: methodology. Live status: is GitHub down?
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