Dare Obasanjo: “GitHub … How many other services are painting a far rosier picture than reality on their service status pages?” – mas.to
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/30
Last 90 days uptime on 20260427 of the GitHub Platform: 87.25%
Because of two alternative GitHub status pages, a lot of people now realise that GitHub gives a rosier result than the official pages.
April uptime not even had one nine, dropping below 89%.
Which begs this interesting question
“How many other services are painting a far rosier picture than reality on their service status pages?” by Dare Obasanjo: “GitHub just published a blogpo…” – mas.to:
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to
Monthly uptime view, but the source is unclear. Could not correlate this to any of the below sources.
GitHub just published a blogpost about their service availability woes as usage of AI coding tools has grown exponentially since December.
They originally planned to increase capacity by 10x but now think 30x is needed to handle the flood.
What I found notable is the community does a better job of tracking their uptime than the official GitHub status page.
How many other services are painting a far rosier picture than reality on their service status pages?
The blogpost: [Wayback/Archive] An update on GitHub availability – The GitHub Blog
The alternative status pages:
- [Wayback/Archive] Historical GitHub Uptime Charts (older)
- Repository: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – DaMrNelson/github-historical-uptime: Plotting the historical uptime of GitHub · GitHub by Nelson Schramm.
- [Wayback/Archive] The Missing GitHub Status Page (more recent – the picture on the top-right)
Media coverage:
- [Wayback/Archive] r/github: GitHub uptime dropped below 90% according to unofficial status page : github
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub’s Historic Uptime | Hacker News with some interesting comments on historic availability data also being more rosie.
- [Wayback/Archive] Github has been having issues since the Microsoft acquisition. https://damrnelso… | Hacker News with some interesting comments on the Azure migration
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub seems to be struggling with three nines availability • The Register is sharp as ever.
- [Wayback/Archive] AI Has Broken the Internet – YouTube
- [Wayback/Archive] Github might be in trouble – YouTube
Queries:
- [Wayback/Archive] marke suppo marksuppa last 90 days uptime github platform at DuckDuckGo (had to query as the original post only contained pictures but no links and no alt-text: please do better folks!!)
- [Wayback/Archive] All | Search powered by Algolia: hn, github outage
Regrettably not archivable in Wayback Machine or Archive.is any more, but usually a better indication of status than the GitHub status itself: Downdetector: Github down? Current service status and errors – US
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