# How to Monitor GitHub Uptime

> GitHub is a platform for version control and collaboration, used by millions of developers worldwide.

*Source: https://monitoristic.com/monitor/github*

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## Why Monitor GitHub?

GitHub outages affect CI/CD pipelines, pull request workflows, and deployments. If your team ships code through GitHub, an outage can halt your entire development process.

## What to Monitor

- `github.com` — Main site availability
- `api.github.com` — REST API for integrations and CI/CD
- `github.io` — GitHub Pages hosted sites

## What You Should Actually Do

1. Monitor the endpoints you depend on — not just github.com but api.github.com and any CI/webhook endpoints your pipelines use
2. Set up instant alerts — Telegram or webhooks so your DevOps engineer knows before anyone asks
3. Create an internal status page — one link the whole team can check instead of pinging each other
4. Document your dependency map — which services depend on GitHub? Who's blocked when it goes down?
5. Bookmark their status page — githubstatus.com is the authoritative source, but your own monitor often catches issues faster

## GitHub's Official Status Page

GitHub publishes real-time status at https://www.githubstatus.com. Your own monitor complements it by catching connection-level issues, often before the status page updates.

## Takeaway

The chaos isn't caused by GitHub going down. GitHub goes down sometimes — every service does. The chaos is caused by the gap between "GitHub is down" and "your team knows GitHub is down." That gap is where the uncertainty lives, where the Slack threads multiply, and where 6 engineers spend 20 minutes each confirming what a single alert would have told them in 60 seconds.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do I get notified when GitHub goes down?

Set up an HTTP monitor for github.com on Monitoristic. When downtime is detected, you'll get an instant Telegram or webhook alert with the HTTP status code and timestamp. Recovery alerts fire when it comes back.

### What's the best check interval for monitoring GitHub?

For production CI/CD dependencies, 1–2 minute intervals catch issues before they cascade. If you're monitoring for awareness, 5-minute checks are fine. Monitoristic offers 5 min (Lite), 2 min (Pro), and 1 min (Business).

### Can I monitor GitHub's API separately from the main site?

Yes. Create separate monitors for github.com, api.github.com, and your CI webhook endpoint. Each tracks independently — so you'll know if the web UI is down but the API is fine, or vice versa.

### How is this different from githubstatus.com?

GitHub's status page tells you when they detect an issue. Your own monitor tells you when you can't reach GitHub — which can happen before the official page updates. You also get push alerts instead of checking a webpage.