GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)

GitHub reported that the August 17 outage, lasting 7 hours 47 minutes, resulted from a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed a specific infrastructure component in its Central US data center. The company outlined corrective actions to prevent similar overloads and improve overall reliability.