GitHub experienced a critical incident on October 5, 2026 affecting Actions and Pages, lasting 3h 37m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 05, 2026, 07:11 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions
- investigating Oct 05, 2026, 07:15 PM UTC
We’re investigating an issue causing delays when assigning GitHub-hosted runners to Actions jobs. Some workflows may take longer to start across runner configurations. Our teams are working to mitigate the issue, and we’ll provide an update as we learn more.
- investigating Oct 05, 2026, 07:50 PM UTC
We’re still investigating delays in assigning GitHub-hosted runners, affecting workflow start times across multiple runner configurations. Our teams are working to mitigate the impact; we’ll share another update as we learn more.
- investigating Oct 05, 2026, 08:39 PM UTC
We’re continuing to investigate job failures and delays affecting GitHub-hosted runner assignment and workflow start times. Our teams are actively working to mitigate the impact and will provide another update as we learn more.
- investigating Oct 05, 2026, 08:47 PM UTC
Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Oct 05, 2026, 09:09 PM UTC
In addition to ongoing issues with Actions and Hosted Runners, some customers are also unable to access repository list, licensing and billing pages within their GitHub accounts. We continue to investigate and are working on mitigation.
- investigating Oct 05, 2026, 09:22 PM UTC
Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Oct 05, 2026, 09:31 PM UTC
Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Oct 05, 2026, 09:32 PM UTC
We have applied mitigations to address GitHub Actions failures. Queued jobs are clearing, new jobs are not delayed, and we expect full runner recovery shortly. We continue to monitor for full recovery and are working to mitigate ongoing issues affecting other services, including access to repository lists, licensing, and billing pages.
- investigating Oct 05, 2026, 09:54 PM UTC
Actions is operating normally.
- investigating Oct 05, 2026, 10:40 PM UTC
Pages is operating normally.
- resolved Oct 05, 2026, 10:49 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.