GitHub incident

Incident with Actions, we are investigating reports of degraded availability

Major Resolved View vendor source →

GitHub experienced a major incident on May 6, 2026 affecting Actions, lasting 2h 25m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 06, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
Resolved
May 06, 2026, 09:44 AM UTC
Duration
2h 25m
Detected by Pingoru
May 06, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC

Affected components

Actions

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 06, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

  2. investigating May 06, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC

    Actions is experiencing issues with ubuntu standard hosted runners leading to high wait times. We are actively investigating the issue

  3. investigating May 06, 2026, 09:08 AM UTC

    We've applied a mitigation to fix the issues with queuing and running Actions jobs. We are seeing improvements in telemetry and are monitoring for full recovery.

  4. monitoring May 06, 2026, 09:19 AM UTC

    The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  5. monitoring May 06, 2026, 09:44 AM UTC

    Actions wait times have fully recovered.

  6. resolved May 06, 2026, 09:44 AM 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.