Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved (githubstatus.com)

Article summary

GitHub experienced an incident with issues and webhooks, which has been resolved. The incident was reported and updates were provided. Users can subscribe to updates for incidents via email and/or text message. The incident has been resolved and GitHub is monitoring the situation.

Main themes

• GitHub incident
• Webhook issues
• Service reliability
• Centralized services
• Scalability
• AI agents

What commenters say

• The frequent downtime of GitHub is unacceptable and is affecting users' work.
• The use of AI agents is overloading GitHub's services and causing scalability issues.
• Some users believe that GitHub's reliance on centralized services is a major contributor to its downtime and scalability problems.
• Others argue that the issue is not with centralized services, but rather with GitHub's ability to scale and handle the increased traffic from AI agents.
• There are concerns that Microsoft's push for AI usage is conflicting with the needs of GitHub's SRE teams to throttle bot traffic.
• Some users are considering moving to alternative platforms, such as Codeberg, due to GitHub's stability issues.
• The incident highlights the need for more robust scalability and reliability in GitHub's services to handle the increasing demands of users and AI agents.
• Some users are skeptical about the ability of centralized services to provide high uptime and scalability, and argue that self-hosting is a more reliable option.