GitHub Availability Report: July 2020
Last month we introduced GitHub’s monthly availability report to address service disruptions and share our learnings with the community.
Last month we introduced GitHub’s monthly availability report to address service disruptions and share our learnings with the community.
What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our…
Solving and staying ahead of problems when scaling up a system of GitHub’s size is a delicate process. Here’s a look at some of the tools in GitHub’s toolbox, and how we’ve used them to solve problems.
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of our new organization and enterprise-level security overview dashboards, alongside enhanced secret scanning metrics and the enablement trends reports. These features are…
GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents, both long running and shorter duration. We have since mitigated these incidents and all systems are now operating normally. Read on for more details about what caused these incidents and what we’re doing to mitigate in the future.
Open source maintainers and security researchers embrace a new best practice to report and fix vulnerabilities.
Looking back over a year’s worth of developer-first content moderation and, new in this report, making our data more accessible to researchers.
Access to the open internet is essential to defending human rights, and developers have an important role in promoting freedom of expression and transparency. GitHub is committed to keeping Iranians connected to the global developer community.
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve continued with the more granular reporting we began in our 2021 reports.
In GitHub’s latest transparency report, we’re giving you a by-the-numbers look at how we responded to requests for user info and content removal.
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats.
At GitHub, we put developers first, and we work hard to provide a safe, open, and inclusive platform for code collaboration. This means we are committed to minimizing the disruption…
On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 GitHub.com was unavailable from 17:21 to 17:26 UTC and intermittently unavailable from 17:26 to 17:30 UTC due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. We understand…
Last week GitHub was unavailable for two hours and six minutes. We understand how much you rely on GitHub and consider the availability of our service one of the core…
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Over the past few weeks, we have experienced multiple incidents due to the health of our database. We wanted to share what we know about these incidents while our team continues to address them.
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GitHub Copilot SWE, a new experimental model in GitHub Copilot, is now rolling out to Visual Studio Code Insiders as part of a technical preview. Optimized for code-related tasks like…
GitHub takes the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) pledge.
Every minute, GitHub blocks several secrets with push protection—but secret leaks still remain one of the most common causes of security incidents. Learn how GitHub is making it easier to protect yourself from exposed secrets, including today’s launches of standalone Secret Protection, org-wide scanning, and better access for teams of all sizes.
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