gh-down

gh-down is a GitHub CLI extension that prints the status of key GitHub services so you can spot outages without leaving your terminal.

Usage

gh down

Example output:

GitHub Service Status - Oct 21 14:32 (local time)

🟢 API Requests - Operational
🟢 Git Operations - Operational
🟡 Codespaces - Degraded Performance

Active incidents:
🟡 Codespaces Latency
  Impact: Minor
  Status: Investigating
  More info: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/example
  - [Oct 21 14:10] Investigating: Engineers are looking into latency

See full incident history: https://www.githubstatus.com/

Add flags as needed:

• --details to show active incidents.
• --resolved to see incidents resolved in the past 7 days.
• --json for machine-readable output.

Installation

gh extension install Houstonwp/gh-down

Run the command with gh down whenever you want a quick health check.