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Security alerts on GitHub

Developer Tools — GitHub's security alerts for vulnerable dependencies [Open Source, Developer Tools]
Developer Toolsest. 2017
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
21
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
11
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
21 probes · Jun 11, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 21 probesavg response 2915 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
github.blog
edge
direct origin
server
nginx
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Security alerts on GitHub's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/introducing-security-alerts-on-github/) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 11 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Heroku CIdev-toolssimilar82%40.00.0● live
Webhook.sitedev-toolssimilar75%48.60.0● live
AnySearchai-toolstag-overlap73%45.6+7.2● live
RequestBindev-toolssimilar73%20.20.0→ redirected
html.contactdev-toolssimilar73%40.0+2.4● live
Netlifydev-toolssimilar73%40.00.0● live
GitHub Actionsdev-toolssimilar71%40.0-0.8● live
Bitrisedev-toolssimilar69%48.10.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 13:26Z200github.com → github.blognginx2908redirected_offsite
2026-08-14 12:23Z200github.com → github.blognginx2826redirected_offsite
2026-08-09 19:06Z200github.com → github.blognginx3197redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:10Z200github.com → github.blognginx3316redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:09Z200github.com → github.blognginx3640redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:03Z200github.com → github.blognginx3162redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 13:48Z200github.com → github.blognginx2994redirected_offsite
2026-07-13 13:35Z200github.com → github.blognginx3479redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 15:41Z200github.com → github.blognginx2351redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 00:20Z200github.com → github.blognginx2834redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 10:36Z200github.com → github.blognginx2242redirected_offsite
2026-06-22 13:05Z200github.com → github.blognginx2496redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 10:28Z200github.com → github.blognginx2046redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 00:30Z200github.com → github.blognginx3317redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Security alerts on GitHub · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/security-alerts-on-github · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.