GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?

(isgithubcooked.com)

60 points | by toomanyrichies an hour ago ago

13 comments

  • kashnote 2 minutes ago

    I think we need to have a little more sympathy for GitHub. You could justify the jabs when could all blame any outage on the migration to Azure, but then they shared numbers around the scale they're dealing with now that everyone is constantly building and pushing with AI.

    I think it's commendable that they're not limiting access to the site or (intentionally) throttling newcomers. Yes, they need to get this figured out, but a little sympathy goes a long way. I personally wish them the best and hope their on-call people can go back to getting normal amounts of sleep soon.

  • 404mm 2 minutes ago

    If backend GitHub services are anything like GHES then I’m surprised it even managed to scale this much.

  • bushbaba 27 minutes ago

    could have been a page with a static 'Yes' and a significant portion of time it'd be accurate.

  • fenio 16 minutes ago
  • kevmo 29 minutes ago

    An important thing to consider is how much of their uptime without incidents is not the normal working hours. Their incident-free uptime on 9-5 EST, Mon-Fri, is probably like 60%.

    • perfectstorm a few seconds ago

      what's normal working hours? very US centric comment IMO. Europe, India, China, Latam etc. don't fall into your 9-5 EST normal working hour bucket.

  • arlattimore 32 minutes ago

    I literally chuckled out loud when I saw the headline :D

  • johnea an hour ago

    Oh, I thought it said "Github Outrage Tracker".

    I was ready to click...

    • HPsquared an hour ago

      That one would be like iscaliforniaonfire.com

  • jakub_g an hour ago

    Possibly inspired by:

    https://red-squares.cian.lol/

    • gen220 3 minutes ago

      Hey! isgithubcooked.com is my site; I made this site in February '26, I think

      The contribution graph as an outage calendar idea is a commonly recurring one :). I definitely saw it somewhere else as a static asset first before I made this site.

    • ChrisArchitect 34 minutes ago