# GitHub Availability Report: August 2024

DevFeed: [GitHub Availability Report: August 2024](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/github-availability-report-august-2024-67680.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-availability-report-august-2024/>)

Author: Jakub Oleksy

Published: 2024-09-11T19:00:07Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [GitHub Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/github-engineering.md>)

Topics: [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [Production Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/production-engineering.md>)

Tags: [company-news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/company-news.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [database-change-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-change-management.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [github-availability-report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github-availability-report.md>), [health-check](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/health-check.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [news-insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news-insights.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [rollback](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rollback.md>)

## AI overview

GitHub reports that an erroneous database configuration change on August 14, 2024 made its production read-only database endpoint inaccessible and disrupted GitHub.com services for 36 minutes. GitHub restored service by reverting the change and says it is adding database change-management guardrails, faster rollback functionality, and resilience improvements.

## Source excerpt

In August, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.