Incident with GitHub.com
Affected: Git OperationsWebhooksAPI RequestsIssuesPull RequestsActionsPagesCopilot
Part of GitHub 
Critical August 17, 2026 Critical August 6, 2026 Minor August 6, 2026 Major July 24, 2026 Critical July 19, 2026 Major July 13, 2026 Critical July 9, 2026 Minor July 2, 2026 Critical May 26, 2026 Critical May 15, 2026 Critical May 4, 2026
GitHub Pages Outage History
GitHub Pages is up right nowGitHub Pages had 11 outages in the last 2 years totaling 41h 7m of downtime — averaging 0.5 incidents per month.
There were 11 GitHub Pages outages since April 13, 2026 totaling 41h 7m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
Incident with Actions
Affected: ActionsPages
Timeline · 24 updates
Incident with Pages - Deployment Lag
Affected: Pages
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating Aug 06, 2026, 03:03 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pages
- monitoring Aug 06, 2026, 03:50 PM UTC
The degradation affecting Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- resolved Aug 06, 2026, 04:22 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.
Disruption with some GitHub services
Affected: API RequestsIssuesPull RequestsActionsPagesCopilot
Timeline · 12 updates
Incident with GitHub Actions
Affected: API RequestsIssuesActionsPages
Timeline · 18 updates
Actions runs are experiencing failures to start
Affected: ActionsPages
Timeline · 4 updates
- investigating Jul 13, 2026, 01:32 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions
- investigating Jul 13, 2026, 01:32 PM UTC
Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- monitoring Jul 13, 2026, 01:39 PM UTC
The degradation affecting Actions and Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- 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.
Delays starting Actions runs
Affected: ActionsPages
Timeline · 14 updates
Incident with Pages
Affected: Pages
Timeline · 4 updates
- investigating Jul 02, 2026, 04:54 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pages
- investigating Jul 02, 2026, 04:56 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of slow and failing Pages deployments. Access to Pages is unaffected.
- investigating Jul 02, 2026, 05:57 PM UTC
Pages deployment latency is recovering. The team continues working toward full mitigation and a return to nominal state.
- resolved Jul 02, 2026, 06:25 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.
Incident with Actions and Pages
Affected: ActionsPages
Timeline · 8 updates
- investigating May 26, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pages
- investigating May 26, 2026, 11:19 AM UTC
Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
- 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.
- investigating May 26, 2026, 12:17 PM UTC
Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- 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
- monitoring May 26, 2026, 01:00 PM UTC
The degradation affecting Actions and Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- monitoring May 26, 2026, 01:01 PM UTC
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- 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.
Actions is experiencing degraded availability
Affected: ActionsPages
Timeline · 7 updates
- investigating May 15, 2026, 08:13 AM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions
- investigating May 15, 2026, 08:14 AM UTC
Pages is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating May 15, 2026, 08:26 AM UTC
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- investigating May 15, 2026, 08:27 AM UTC
The degradation affecting Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- 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.
- monitoring May 15, 2026, 08:41 AM UTC
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- 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.
Incident with Issues and Webhooks
Affected: Git OperationsWebhooksIssuesPull RequestsActionsPackagesPagesCodespaces