GitHub Status API

Base URL

https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2

Authentication

No token and no account. This endpoint is entirely separate from the GitHub REST API and does not consume its rate limit.

Rate limit

Not published. Status data is coarse, so poll at most once a minute.

Pricing

Free.

CORS

Enabled — callable directly from browser JavaScript

Official docs

Read the docs

Every request below was executed against the live API on 2026-08-21, and the response shown is the real body it returned — not an illustration.

curl 'https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/status.json'

const res = await fetch("https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/status.json");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/status.json", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

{
  "page": {
    "id": "kctbh9vrtdwd",
    "name": "GitHub",
    "url": "https://www.githubstatus.com",
    "time_zone": "Etc/UTC",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-21T06:14:50.142Z"
  },
  "status": {
    "indicator": "none",
    "description": "All Systems Operational"
  }
}

page.updated_atstring

ISO 8601 timestamp of the last status page update. Compare it with now to see how stale the answer is.

status.indicatorstring

`none` when everything is healthy, then `minor`, `major` or `critical`. This is the field to branch on, because it is a fixed vocabulary.

status.descriptionstring

Human-readable summary such as `All Systems Operational`. Display it, but never parse it: the wording changes.

(components.json) components[]array

Per-service rows for Git Operations, API Requests, Actions, Packages, Pages, Codespaces, Copilot and Issues, each with its own `status` string.

• Print a warning in CI when a build fails while GitHub reports an incident
• Add a GitHub health badge to a team dashboard or status wall
• Gate a deployment script that depends on Actions or Packages being healthy
• Post an automatic Slack notice when the indicator leaves `none`
• Record incident history to explain a bad week in an engineering report