Github Insights still not working

[RayBytes]

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Over multiple days now, whenever visiting insights for my github repository, I keep seeing this:
Referring sites and popular content are temporarily unavailable or may not display accurately. We're actively working to resolve the issue.

I understand that according to the message they are working on it, but its been almost 5 days of me seeing this message. Is this a problem with my account or a general site wide problem?

[VictorMoni]

Hi @RayBytes,

This isn’t an issue with your account. GitHub Insights has been experiencing a site-wide problem where traffic and referring site data are temporarily unavailable. If you’re still seeing that message after several days, it means the outage is ongoing.

You can keep track of the current status here: https://www.githubstatus.com.

So no need to worry, it should start working again once GitHub resolves it.

[RayBytes]

Hi @RayBytes,

This isn’t an issue with your account. GitHub Insights has been experiencing a site-wide problem where traffic and referring site data are temporarily unavailable. If you’re still seeing that message after several days, it means the outage is ongoing.

You can keep track of the current status here: https://www.githubstatus.com.

So no need to worry, it should start working again once GitHub resolves it.

Hey, thanks for the reply. Do you know if analytics are still being tracked or not?

[RayBytes]

Also I don't appear to see anything regarding analytics on GitHub's status page?

[VictorMoni]

Hi @RayBytes,

Yes — the data is usually still being tracked in the background. What’s broken is the display/reporting, so once GitHub fixes it the stats should appear again.

[LostBeard]

You can keep track of the current status here: https://www.githubstatus.com.

That link says everything is working normally All Systems Operational, but Traffic stats are still showing the same error message that has been showing for days.

[GabrieleMessina]

Hi, I’m experiencing the same issue, and it seems to have been happening for over a week now. Since only data from the past two weeks is displayed, this is causing a significant problem.

[RobertGawron]

I also have the same issue, it's been one or two weeks.

[queenofcorgis]

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[LostBeard]

Hope this helps everyone understand the situation better! Let me know if you need clarification on any of these points or want help with specific workarounds. 🚀

That AI generated answer does not help at all and, if anything, it is a big waste of time. Unsubbing here. It will work, if they ever decide to fix it (been about a month now.) Not interested in spam like ^^^ that.

[1bl4z3r]

Can anyone shed a light if Insights is working or not?
I am seeing same page for last 20 days or so

[queenofcorgis]

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[duckeydev]

Welp, still the same thing, cant even see stats for my trending github repo

[mfactory-osaka]

same here, started when they updated the UI with the graphs

[Peixotim]

Hi! @RayBytes 👋

That message is not specific to your account — it’s a known issue on GitHub’s side. The Insights > Traffic section (referring sites and popular content) can sometimes go offline for maintenance or while they fix a data pipeline problem.

It doesn’t affect your repository itself, just the reporting.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing you can do from your end to “fix” it.

👉 The best thing is to keep an eye on the GitHub Status page
where they post updates about incidents. Once the issue is resolved, the traffic data should start displaying again automatically.

[kimmknight]

👉 The best thing is to keep an eye on the GitHub Status page

The GitHub Status page this whole time:

[ArseniiPetrovich]

Same here, please fix it!!!

[LostBeard]

Referring sites and popular content are temporarily unavailable or may not display accurately. We're actively working to resolve the issue.

I think someone doesn't know what temporarily means. 🤦‍♂️

[friflo]

In my case temporarily means two or three months. I guess we may accept it will be two or three years.

[sleeyax]

Nothing is as permanent as a temporary fix...

[shriyansX]

Hi @RayBytes, This issue isn’t specific to your account — it’s a site-wide problem currently affecting GitHub Insights. The message “Referring sites and popular content are temporarily unavailable…” appears for many users and is linked to an ongoing backend update to the traffic analytics system.

There’s no action required on your end. GitHub’s engineering team is aware and working on restoring full functionality. You can monitor the status at https://www.githubstatus.com/
— look under “API and Webhooks” → “Repository Insights / Traffic.”

Once resolved, your Insights data will update automatically.

[arkivanov]

The status page is all green, but I'm still not able to view insights for any of my repositories and the "temporarily unavailable" notice message is still there.

[peff74]

Same problem here, since 2025-08-27...
Please fix it!!!

[CEXT-Dan]

+1 please fix

[NativeMB]

+1 Yep, need to fix that, in the organization and the personal account, we weren't able to analyze the traffic where it comes from.

[pethers]

Blind when it comes to marketing efforts, where does my traffic come from 🙈

[mrz1836]

It's been weeks now, fix it or remove it. In 2025, this should not be an issue.

[VikashLoomba]

+1 bump

Please fix this!

[RobertGawron]

It looks like Microsoft laid off too many engineers and now there's no one left to fix things lol.

[CEXT-Dan]

they should use copilot 😁

[friflo]

That's what they do!

[KingKDot]

Can you guys please fire all of your "vibe coders" because it's been like 2 months now and there still hasn't been a fix.

[umbrageodotus]

Yep ;3

[freakynit]

1.5 months have passed now ... I would really love to know Github's definition of "actively working" here 🤔

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[agpenas]

Same issue reported here https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/172013 and here https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/171370

[rampaa]

Lying to your users is not nice. It seems obvious that no one is "actively" working to resolve the issue.

[mariocandela]

+1 please fix

[iskhakov]

+1

[doronz88]

+1

[stnolting]

+1

[sleeyax]

Hey, I’m just another person following this thread, but all the “+1” comments are flooding inboxes without adding anything useful. If you want this to get more attention, hitting the "upvote" button on the original post actually helps. The more upvotes, the more visible it is. All of the "+1" comments don’t do anything except annoy everyone getting notifications. Thanks!

[ArseniiPetrovich]

It helps my mental state to see I'm not alone in this mess :D

[freakynit]

It seems this is the only alternative we have left to amass more community members to get this fixed. The original post already has sufficient number of upvotes and any more on that is useless. But what's not useless is getting more people to realize how wrong this all is.

In general other cases, I agree with you. But not on this one.