GitHub's recent major outage on August 17, lasting nearly eight hours and disrupting github.com, authentication, Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot, stems from traffic hitting record peaks amid doubled monthly commits since April, overwhelming Central US infrastructure. A misconfigured autoscaling policy on Istio sidecars, combined with load balancer saturation and a VS Code retry loop amplifying Copilot traffic, triggered the cascade—unrelated to any code or config deployment. This follows an August 6 Actions incident and multiple July degradations, prompting CTO Vlad Fedorov to accelerate architectural scaling fixes, retry limit reviews, and reliability upgrades ahead of further AI-driven load growth. Traders are watching status page updates and upcoming capacity expansions for signs of recurrence in the near term.
Riepilogo sperimentale generato dall'AI con riferimento ai dati di Polymarket. Questo non è un consiglio di trading e non ha alcun ruolo nella risoluzione di questo mercato. · AggiornatoIncidente critico di GitHub.com da parte di...?
Incidente critico di GitHub.com da parte di...?
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31 ago 2026
August 31
46%
September 15
73%
September 30
81%
$4,967 Vol.
August 31
$2,959 Vol.
46%
September 15
$1,121 Vol.
73%
September 30
$887 Vol.
81%
This market will resolve to “Yes” if GitHub.com experiences an incident with an impact classified as “critical” between market creation and the listed date, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No.”
An incident will qualify if the official GitHub Status Page (githubstatus.com) or the official GitHub Status API (githubstatus.com/api) classifies the incident's impact as "critical," unless its affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers. Incidents listing no affected components will qualify. GitHub classifies incident impact as None, Minor, Major, or Critical; only Critical will qualify. Component status labels (e.g. "Degraded Performance," "Partial Outage," or "Major Outage") will have no bearing on this market absent a qualifying critical incident.
Revisions published after an incident is marked “Resolved” will not be considered.
If an incident that began before 11:59 PM ET on the listed date remains unresolved at that time, this market will remain open and resolve at the earlier of: (i) when the incident is officially resolved, or (ii) the end of the seventh calendar day (ET) after the listed date, at which point the market will resolve based on the official information available at that time.
Incidents whose affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers will not qualify. Scheduled maintenance will not qualify.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official GitHub system-status information published at https://www.githubstatus.com/, including the official GitHub Status API (https://www.githubstatus.com/api); however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.GitHub's recent major outage on August 17, lasting nearly eight hours and disrupting github.com, authentication, Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot, stems from traffic hitting record peaks amid doubled monthly commits since April, overwhelming Central US infrastructure. A misconfigured autoscaling policy on Istio sidecars, combined with load balancer saturation and a VS Code retry loop amplifying Copilot traffic, triggered the cascade—unrelated to any code or config deployment. This follows an August 6 Actions incident and multiple July degradations, prompting CTO Vlad Fedorov to accelerate architectural scaling fixes, retry limit reviews, and reliability upgrades ahead of further AI-driven load growth. Traders are watching status page updates and upcoming capacity expansions for signs of recurrence in the near term.
This market will resolve to “Yes” if GitHub.com experiences an incident with an impact classified as “critical” between market creation and the listed date, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No.”
An incident will qualify if the official GitHub Status Page (githubstatus.com) or the official GitHub Status API (githubstatus.com/api) classifies the incident's impact as "critical," unless its affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers. Incidents listing no affected components will qualify. GitHub classifies incident impact as None, Minor, Major, or Critical; only Critical will qualify. Component status labels (e.g. "Degraded Performance," "Partial Outage," or "Major Outage") will have no bearing on this market absent a qualifying critical incident.
Revisions published after an incident is marked “Resolved” will not be considered.
If an incident that began before 11:59 PM ET on the listed date remains unresolved at that time, this market will remain open and resolve at the earlier of: (i) when the incident is officially resolved, or (ii) the end of the seventh calendar day (ET) after the listed date, at which point the market will resolve based on the official information available at that time.
Incidents whose affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers will not qualify. Scheduled maintenance will not qualify.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official GitHub system-status information published at https://www.githubstatus.com/, including the official GitHub Status API (https://www.githubstatus.com/api); however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.
An incident will qualify if the official GitHub Status Page (githubstatus.com) or the official GitHub Status API (githubstatus.com/api) classifies the incident's impact as "critical," unless its affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers. Incidents listing no affected components will qualify. GitHub classifies incident impact as None, Minor, Major, or Critical; only Critical will qualify. Component status labels (e.g. "Degraded Performance," "Partial Outage," or "Major Outage") will have no bearing on this market absent a qualifying critical incident.
Revisions published after an incident is marked “Resolved” will not be considered.
If an incident that began before 11:59 PM ET on the listed date remains unresolved at that time, this market will remain open and resolve at the earlier of: (i) when the incident is officially resolved, or (ii) the end of the seventh calendar day (ET) after the listed date, at which point the market will resolve based on the official information available at that time.
Incidents whose affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers will not qualify. Scheduled maintenance will not qualify.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official GitHub system-status information published at https://www.githubstatus.com/, including the official GitHub Status API (https://www.githubstatus.com/api); however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.
Mercato aperto: Aug 19, 2026, 8:42 PM ET
Volume
$4,967Data di fine
30 set 2026Mercato aperto
Aug 19, 2026, 8:42 PM ETFonte di risoluzione
https://www.githubstatus.com/Resolver
0x65070BE91...This market will resolve to “Yes” if GitHub.com experiences an incident with an impact classified as “critical” between market creation and the listed date, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No.”
An incident will qualify if the official GitHub Status Page (githubstatus.com) or the official GitHub Status API (githubstatus.com/api) classifies the incident's impact as "critical," unless its affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers. Incidents listing no affected components will qualify. GitHub classifies incident impact as None, Minor, Major, or Critical; only Critical will qualify. Component status labels (e.g. "Degraded Performance," "Partial Outage," or "Major Outage") will have no bearing on this market absent a qualifying critical incident.
Revisions published after an incident is marked “Resolved” will not be considered.
If an incident that began before 11:59 PM ET on the listed date remains unresolved at that time, this market will remain open and resolve at the earlier of: (i) when the incident is officially resolved, or (ii) the end of the seventh calendar day (ET) after the listed date, at which point the market will resolve based on the official information available at that time.
Incidents whose affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers will not qualify. Scheduled maintenance will not qualify.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official GitHub system-status information published at https://www.githubstatus.com/, including the official GitHub Status API (https://www.githubstatus.com/api); however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.GitHub's recent major outage on August 17, lasting nearly eight hours and disrupting github.com, authentication, Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot, stems from traffic hitting record peaks amid doubled monthly commits since April, overwhelming Central US infrastructure. A misconfigured autoscaling policy on Istio sidecars, combined with load balancer saturation and a VS Code retry loop amplifying Copilot traffic, triggered the cascade—unrelated to any code or config deployment. This follows an August 6 Actions incident and multiple July degradations, prompting CTO Vlad Fedorov to accelerate architectural scaling fixes, retry limit reviews, and reliability upgrades ahead of further AI-driven load growth. Traders are watching status page updates and upcoming capacity expansions for signs of recurrence in the near term.
This market will resolve to “Yes” if GitHub.com experiences an incident with an impact classified as “critical” between market creation and the listed date, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No.”
An incident will qualify if the official GitHub Status Page (githubstatus.com) or the official GitHub Status API (githubstatus.com/api) classifies the incident's impact as "critical," unless its affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers. Incidents listing no affected components will qualify. GitHub classifies incident impact as None, Minor, Major, or Critical; only Critical will qualify. Component status labels (e.g. "Degraded Performance," "Partial Outage," or "Major Outage") will have no bearing on this market absent a qualifying critical incident.
Revisions published after an incident is marked “Resolved” will not be considered.
If an incident that began before 11:59 PM ET on the listed date remains unresolved at that time, this market will remain open and resolve at the earlier of: (i) when the incident is officially resolved, or (ii) the end of the seventh calendar day (ET) after the listed date, at which point the market will resolve based on the official information available at that time.
Incidents whose affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers will not qualify. Scheduled maintenance will not qualify.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official GitHub system-status information published at https://www.githubstatus.com/, including the official GitHub Status API (https://www.githubstatus.com/api); however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.
An incident will qualify if the official GitHub Status Page (githubstatus.com) or the official GitHub Status API (githubstatus.com/api) classifies the incident's impact as "critical," unless its affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers. Incidents listing no affected components will qualify. GitHub classifies incident impact as None, Minor, Major, or Critical; only Critical will qualify. Component status labels (e.g. "Degraded Performance," "Partial Outage," or "Major Outage") will have no bearing on this market absent a qualifying critical incident.
Revisions published after an incident is marked “Resolved” will not be considered.
If an incident that began before 11:59 PM ET on the listed date remains unresolved at that time, this market will remain open and resolve at the earlier of: (i) when the incident is officially resolved, or (ii) the end of the seventh calendar day (ET) after the listed date, at which point the market will resolve based on the official information available at that time.
Incidents whose affected components, once the incident is marked "Resolved," consist solely of Copilot and/or Copilot AI Model Providers will not qualify. Scheduled maintenance will not qualify.
The primary resolution source for this market will be official GitHub system-status information published at https://www.githubstatus.com/, including the official GitHub Status API (https://www.githubstatus.com/api); however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.
Volume
$4,967Data di fine
30 set 2026Mercato aperto
Aug 19, 2026, 8:42 PM ETFonte di risoluzione
https://www.githubstatus.com/Resolver
0x65070BE91...GitHub's recent major outage on August 17, lasting nearly eight hours and disrupting github.com, authentication, Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot, stems from traffic hitting record peaks amid doubled monthly commits since April, overwhelming Central US infrastructure. A misconfigured autoscaling policy on Istio sidecars, combined with load balancer saturation and a VS Code retry loop amplifying Copilot traffic, triggered the cascade—unrelated to any code or config deployment. This follows an August 6 Actions incident and multiple July degradations, prompting CTO Vlad Fedorov to accelerate architectural scaling fixes, retry limit reviews, and reliability upgrades ahead of further AI-driven load growth. Traders are watching status page updates and upcoming capacity expansions for signs of recurrence in the near term.
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