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GitHub Actions Outage History

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GitHub Actions had 25 outages in the last 2 years totaling 66h 43m of downtime — averaging 1 incident per month.

There were 25 GitHub Actions outages since March 3, 2026 totaling 66h 43m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://www.githubstatus.com

Critical August 17, 2026

Incident with GitHub.com

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 17, 2026, 01:40 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 17, 2026, 09:15 PM UTC
Duration
7h 35m
Affected: Git OperationsWebhooksAPI RequestsIssuesPull RequestsActionsPagesCopilot
Timeline · 36 updates

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Critical July 25, 2026

Actions run failures and delays

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 25, 2026, 12:31 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 25, 2026, 01:13 PM UTC
Duration
41m
Affected: Actions
Timeline · 6 updates
  1. investigating Jul 25, 2026, 12:31 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

  2. investigating Jul 25, 2026, 12:34 PM UTC

    We are experiencing issues with GitHub Actions that are causing workflow run failures and delays for some users. Our engineering team is actively investigating the infrastructure issue and working to restore full functionality.

  3. investigating Jul 25, 2026, 12:58 PM UTC

    We have applied a mitigation for the infrastructure issue affecting GitHub Actions. Workflow run failures and delays are improving but not yet fully resolved. Our engineering team continues to work on restoring full functionality across all affected infrastructure.

  4. monitoring Jul 25, 2026, 12:59 PM UTC

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

  5. monitoring Jul 25, 2026, 01:12 PM UTC

    We have seen recovery in GitHub Actions performance following our earlier mitigation. Workflow runs are processing normally, though jobs queued before 12:40 UTC may still experience failures and will need to be retried.

  6. resolved Jul 25, 2026, 01:13 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.

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Minor July 22, 2026

Disruption with actions hosted runners

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 22, 2026, 08:43 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 22, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC
Duration
1h 25m
Affected: Actions
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Jul 22, 2026, 08:43 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

  2. investigating Jul 22, 2026, 08:47 PM UTC

    Approximately 3% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners are experiencing run start delays exceeding 5 minutes. A small portion of these runs may fail after extended delays. We have identified the cause and are working on a mitigation.

  3. investigating Jul 22, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

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

  4. monitoring Jul 22, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

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

  5. resolved Jul 22, 2026, 10:09 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.

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Major July 13, 2026

Actions runs are experiencing failures to start

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 13, 2026, 01:32 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 13, 2026, 01:53 PM UTC
Duration
21m
Affected: ActionsPages
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Jul 13, 2026, 01:32 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

  2. investigating Jul 13, 2026, 01:32 PM UTC

    Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  3. monitoring Jul 13, 2026, 01:39 PM UTC

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

  4. resolved Jul 13, 2026, 01:53 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.

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Major June 25, 2026

Degradation with Webhooks, Pull Requests and Actions

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 25, 2026, 05:50 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 25, 2026, 06:27 PM UTC
Duration
37m
Affected: WebhooksIssuesPull RequestsActions
Timeline · 6 updates
  1. investigating Jun 25, 2026, 05:50 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Pull Requests and Webhooks

  2. investigating Jun 25, 2026, 05:53 PM UTC

    Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

  3. investigating Jun 25, 2026, 05:58 PM UTC

    Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  4. monitoring Jun 25, 2026, 06:07 PM UTC

    The degradation affecting Actions, Issues, Pull Requests and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  5. monitoring Jun 25, 2026, 06:27 PM UTC

    We identified an issue that caused degradation across multiple services including Webhooks, Pull Requests, Actions, and Issues. Customers may have experienced delays or failures with these services. We have applied mitigations and affected services have recovered.

  6. resolved Jun 25, 2026, 06:27 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.

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Critical June 8, 2026

Pull Requests and Issues unavailable for signed-out users

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 08, 2026, 07:11 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 08, 2026, 08:36 AM UTC
Duration
1h 24m
Affected: IssuesPull RequestsActions
Timeline · 8 updates
  1. investigating Jun 08, 2026, 07:11 AM UTC

    We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

  2. investigating Jun 08, 2026, 07:14 AM UTC

    Issues is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

  3. investigating Jun 08, 2026, 07:31 AM UTC

    Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  4. investigating Jun 08, 2026, 07:32 AM UTC

    Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  5. investigating Jun 08, 2026, 08:13 AM UTC

    Following investigation, we are seeing that impact is limited to unauthenticated users when accessing Pull Requests or Issues. Our team continues to work towards mitigation with more updates to follow as we have them.

  6. investigating Jun 08, 2026, 08:27 AM UTC

    Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  7. monitoring Jun 08, 2026, 08:35 AM UTC

    The degradation affecting Actions, Issues and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  8. resolved Jun 08, 2026, 08:36 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.

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Critical May 26, 2026

Incident with Actions and Pages

Detected by Pingoru
May 26, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC
Resolved
May 26, 2026, 01:18 PM UTC
Duration
2h 21m
Affected: ActionsPages
Timeline · 8 updates
  1. investigating May 26, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pages

  2. investigating May 26, 2026, 11:19 AM UTC

    Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

  3. investigating May 26, 2026, 11:53 AM UTC

    We are investigating authentication issues leading to failure in starting Actions runs and downloading actions. At this time the majority of Actions runs is impacted.

  4. investigating May 26, 2026, 12:17 PM UTC

    Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  5. investigating May 26, 2026, 12:37 PM UTC

    We have identified the cause of the authentication issues affecting GitHub Actions and are actively working on mitigation

  6. monitoring May 26, 2026, 01:00 PM UTC

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

  7. monitoring May 26, 2026, 01:01 PM UTC

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

  8. resolved May 26, 2026, 01:18 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.

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Critical May 15, 2026

Actions is experiencing degraded availability

Detected by Pingoru
May 15, 2026, 08:13 AM UTC
Resolved
May 15, 2026, 08:48 AM UTC
Duration
34m
Affected: ActionsPages
Timeline · 7 updates
  1. investigating May 15, 2026, 08:13 AM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

  2. investigating May 15, 2026, 08:14 AM UTC

    Pages is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

  3. investigating May 15, 2026, 08:26 AM UTC

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

  4. investigating May 15, 2026, 08:27 AM UTC

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

  5. investigating May 15, 2026, 08:29 AM UTC

    We are monitoring an issue that was affecting GitHub Actions and causing downstream issues in GitHub Coding Agent and GitHub Code Review Agent. The issue has resolved now but we are closely monitoring our systems for full recovery.

  6. monitoring May 15, 2026, 08:41 AM UTC

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

  7. resolved May 15, 2026, 08:48 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.

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Major May 6, 2026

Incident with Actions, we are investigating reports of degraded availability

Detected by Pingoru
May 06, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
Resolved
May 06, 2026, 09:44 AM UTC
Duration
2h 25m
Affected: Actions
Timeline · 6 updates
  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.

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Critical April 23, 2026

Incident with multiple GitHub services

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 23, 2026, 04:12 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 23, 2026, 05:30 PM UTC
Duration
1h 18m
Affected: WebhooksActionsCopilot
Timeline · 8 updates
  1. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 04:12 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Copilot and Webhooks

  2. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 04:19 PM UTC

    We are investigating multiple unavailable services.

  3. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 04:34 PM UTC

    Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  4. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 04:52 PM UTC

    We have identified the root problem and are working on mitigation.

  5. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 05:03 PM UTC

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

  6. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 05:04 PM UTC

    Many services are mitigated and are validating the remaining services.

  7. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 05:10 PM UTC

    Webhooks is operating normally.

  8. resolved Apr 23, 2026, 05:30 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.

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Minor April 23, 2026

Investigating errors on GitHub

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 23, 2026, 02:40 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 23, 2026, 03:18 PM UTC
Duration
38m
Affected: ActionsPackagesCodespacesCopilot
Timeline · 8 updates
  1. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 02:40 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

  2. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 02:41 PM UTC

    Packages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  3. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 02:42 PM UTC

    Codespaces is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  4. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 02:44 PM UTC

    Copilot is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  5. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 02:51 PM UTC

    Users are experiencing errors loading various web pages on github.com. Actions and Copilot Cloud Agent runs will be delayed.

  6. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 03:02 PM UTC

    A mitigation was applied and services have recovered. Actions is working through queued work before fully recovering.

  7. monitoring Apr 23, 2026, 03:02 PM UTC

    The degradation affecting Actions, Codespaces, Copilot and Packages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  8. resolved Apr 23, 2026, 03:18 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.

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Minor March 30, 2026

Elevated delays in Actions workflow runs and Pull Request status updates

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 30, 2026, 01:02 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 30, 2026, 01:25 PM UTC
Duration
23m
Affected: Pull RequestsActions
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Mar 30, 2026, 01:02 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pull Requests

  2. monitoring Mar 30, 2026, 01:20 PM UTC

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

  3. monitoring Mar 30, 2026, 01:25 PM UTC

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

  4. resolved Mar 30, 2026, 01:25 PM UTC

    On March 30, 2026, between 10:11 UTC and 13:25 UTC, GitHub Actions experienced degraded performance. During this time, approximately 2.65% of workflow jobs triggered by pull request events experienced start delays exceeding 5 minutes. The issue was caused by replication lag on an internal database cluster used by Actions, which triggered write throttling in our database protection layer and slowed job queue processing. The replication lag originated from planned maintenance to scale the internal database. Newly added database hosts triggered guardrails in the throttling layer, restricting write throughput. The incident was mitigated by excluding the new hosts from replication delay calculations. To prevent recurrence, we have updated our maintenance procedures to ensure new hosts are excluded from throttling assessments during scaling operations. Additionally, we are investing in automation to streamline this type of maintenance activity.

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