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GitHub had a rough day today. Microsoft confirmed a global outage starting around 13:40 UTC that hit Actions, Copilot, Issues, and pull requests, with roughly 20% error rates across web and API traffic. A fix went in by early evening UTC, though some auth failures lingered after that. The cause hasn’t been shared publicly, so we don’t know yet if this was infrastructure, a bad deploy, or something else.

If you run a business that depends on developers, this is the kind of thing that quietly breaks your day without anyone telling you why. Code that won’t push, builds that won’t trigger, tickets that vanish from the board, all while your team assumes they did something wrong. A few hours of that adds up fast if you’ve got release deadlines or client work tied to a specific timeline. Even businesses that don’t write code directly can feel this, since a lot of internal tools and vendor products sit on top of GitHub without you ever seeing it.

The bigger point isn’t about GitHub specifically. It’s that most owners have no visibility into which parts of their operation quietly depend on a single outside platform until that platform goes down. If your team spent part of today confused about why deployments were stuck or why Copilot suggestions stopped working, that’s a sign worth paying attention to, not just a one day annoyance.

This is exactly the kind of thing we build into an AI command centre, a simple way to see what’s actually running your operations day to day, so an outage like this doesn’t catch you off guard. For now, if anything looked broken in your dev workflow today, it likely wasn’t your team’s fault. It was GitHub itself.