Outage in Gitbook
GitHub outage affecting Git Sync
Resolved Minor
August 17, 2026 - Started 2 days ago
- Lasted about 7 hours
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
GitHub experienced an outage affecting components that GitBook's Git Sync feature relies on, disrupting content synchronization between GitBook and GitHub. The GitBook App was impacted for approximately 7.3 hours, during which some Git Sync operations failed to work properly. The incident was tied to GitHub's own infrastructure issues and resolved once GitHub restored their affected services.
GitHub currently has an outage with a few components that Git Sync uses to sync your content to and from GitBook. This means that some operations might not work properly while this issue is ongoing. We'll keep this status updated as soon as we have more to share.
GitHub's original status page for this incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
Components affected
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2 days ago - at 08/17/2026 01:56PM
GitHub currently has an outage with a few components that Git Sync uses to sync your content to and from GitBook. This means that some operations might not work properly while this issue is ongoing. We'll keep this status updated as soon as we have more to share.
GitHub's original status page for this incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
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