GitHub Actions and Pages Went Down for an Hour on a Vitess Database Primary Failover That the Status Page Missed
GitHub Status, via r/programming·medium signal
GitHub identified a database primary issue at 15:48 UTC on 2026-08-26 and failed over to a replica; the failover briefly helped but did not mitigate, so GitHub throttled inbound traffic while investigating upstream Vitess issues, ramping back up around 16:49 UTC. The r/programming thread hit 607 upvotes, and its most useful comment (76 upvotes) is from a developer who spent an hour debugging self-hosted runners while the status page was still all green.