Use cases
Software Products E-commerce MSPs Schools Development & Marketing DevOps Agencies Help Desk
Company
Internet Status Blog Pricing Log in Get started free

Outage in Semaphore

Some jobs may have issues authenticating with GitHub

Resolved Major
July 21, 2026 - Started 2 days ago - Lasted about 5 hours
Official incident page

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Semaphore 2.0 experienced a 5.2-hour incident where some jobs failed to authenticate with GitHub, caused by an underlying GitHub-side outage. During the incident, users could work around the issue by regenerating their GitHub deploy key or adding the `--use-cache` flag to checkout commands. The incident was fully resolved once GitHub confirmed their services had recovered.

We are currently investigating this issue.
Components affected
Semaphore 2.0

Trusted by 1,000+ teams

The Status Page Aggregator with Early Outage Detection

Stop finding out about outages from your users. Monitor 6,320+ cloud services and get alerted the second something breaks.

IsDown status aggregator dashboard
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 2 days ago - at 07/21/2026 01:46PM

GitHub confirmed that the incident on their end has been resolved. You can review the GitHub update here:
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/g40zcbvchny4

MONITORING 2 days ago - at 07/21/2026 12:18PM

GitHub confirmed that the incident on their end has been resolved, and services should now be returning to normal.

We are continuing to monitor the situation. You can review the GitHub update here:
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/g40zcbvchny4

MONITORING 2 days ago - at 07/21/2026 10:53AM

We are continuing to monitor the situation, and you can follow the current GitHub incident at the following link:
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/g40zcbvchny4

MONITORING 2 days ago - at 07/21/2026 09:25AM

Our team is monitoring the situation. If you are affected, please regenerate your deploy key by following the instructions on this page: https://docs.semaphore.io/using-semaphore/connect-github#deploy-key

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 07/21/2026 09:06AM

Our engineering team is still investigating and working on this issue, but as a current workaround, you can regenerate your GitHub deployment key.

You can find the instructions on how to do that here: https://docs.semaphore.io/using-semaphore/connect-github#deploy-key

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 07/21/2026 08:49AM

As a workaround to get more consistent builds during this time, please try adding the --use-cache flag to your checkout command.
Read more about it here: https://docs.semaphore.io/reference/toolbox#cache-full-clone

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 07/21/2026 08:36AM

We are currently investigating this issue.

Latest Semaphore outages

Delays in job processing - about 18 hours ago
Elevated error rates - 29 days ago
Elevated Error Rates - about 1 month ago

The Status Page Aggregator with Early Outage Detection

With IsDown, you can monitor all your critical services' official status pages from one centralized dashboard and receive instant alerts the moment an outage is detected. Say goodbye to constantly checking multiple sites for updates and stay ahead of outages with IsDown.

Start free trial

No credit card required · Cancel anytime · 6320 services available

Integrations with Slack Microsoft Teams Google Chat Datadog PagerDuty Zapier Discord Webhook