The GitHub Git repository hosting platform experienced a widespread and major services outage impacting the Issues, PRs, Dashboard, Projects, and Notifications features.

GitHub offers its users the source code management (SCM) and distributed version control functionality of Git in the cloud, without the hassle of configuring their own servers to host a Git installation locally.

On top of the default Git features, GitHub also comes with team collaboration and access control features like task management and bug tracking.

However, given that it's a cloud solution, the GitHub platform is affected once in a while by various issues impacting some or all of its features, directly affecting its users capability of managing their Git repositories hosted on the platform.

GitHub outage map (Image: Downdetector)

Worldwide GitHub services outage

At 10:59 UTC, the GitHub engineering team published an incident report on the platform's status page, saying that they "are investigating reports of issues affecting a number of services."

One hour later, at 12:05 UTC, an update was published stating that "Work continues on the earlier identified errors."

After another 20 minutes, GitHub's engineering team resolved the issue, however, they did not mention in the incident report what was the cause behind this widespread outage.

According to the status site, the GitHub services outage prevented users from creating new issues and pull requests, from receiving notifications, as well as accessing the dashboard and projects.

GitHub users have also reported on Twitter during the last hour that they are experiencing various types of issues, ranging from the entire site being down to 500 Internal Server Error status codes and pull requests not working.