Microsoft’s GitHub is back online after experiencing a two-hour outage

Microsoft-owned open-source developer platform GitHub is back online after experiencing a more than two-hour-long outage, affecting thousands or potentially millions of developers who rely on its various services.

According to the source, GitHub began experiencing troubles about 3.45 p.m. ET on Saturday, affecting Git operations, API queries, GitHub activities, packages, pages, and pull requests.

“We’re looking into problems that are affecting most GitHub services,” according to a GitHub status page post.

It said, “We are actively investigating and will provide an update as soon as possible,” it added. While Git operations, API requests, webhooks, pull requests, GitHub actions, GitHub packages, and GitHub pages were down for more than two hours, these services are now fully back online.

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According to the company, GitHub now has over 73 million developers who use the service for Git version control and hosting for software development.

GitHub is a large code repository that has become very popular among developers and companies hosting entire projects and code. GitHub is used by Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and a slew of other major IT companies.

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