Socket incident

GitHub Service Disruption Impacting Socket Firewall Downloads

Resolved after 56 minutes, on August 12, 2026.

monitoring Aug 12, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

GitHub is currently experiencing a service disruption that may impact customers attempting to download GitHub-hosted releases, including Socket Firewall. This is an upstream GitHub issue and does not impact the operation of existing Socket Firewall deployments. Customers attempting new installations, upgrades, or other workflows that require downloading a release from GitHub may experience failures until GitHub restores service. We are monitoring the incident and will provide updates as GitHub resolves the issue.

Started: Aug 12, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC
Resolved: Aug 12, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC
Duration: 56m
Detected by Pingoru: Aug 12, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

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monitoring Aug 12, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

GitHub is currently experiencing a service disruption that may impact customers attempting to download GitHub-hosted releases, including Socket Firewall. This is an upstream GitHub issue and does not impact the operation of existing Socket Firewall deployments. Customers attempting new installations, upgrades, or other workflows that require downloading a release from GitHub may experience failures until GitHub restores service. We are monitoring the incident and will provide updates as GitHub resolves the issue.
resolved Aug 12, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC

This incident has been resolved.

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