GitHub incident
Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks
GitHub experienced a critical incident on October 19, 2026 affecting Webhooks and Actions and 1 more component, lasting 1h 7m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 19, 2026, 03:49 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pages
- investigating Oct 19, 2026, 03:50 PM UTC
Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
- investigating Oct 19, 2026, 03:56 PM UTC
We’re are currently investigating degraded availability affecting GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks. Customers may experience delays in workflow processing, site builds and webhook delivery.
- investigating Oct 19, 2026, 04:30 PM UTC
We’re seeing recovery following mitigation and are continuing to monitor. Customers may still experience delays in GitHub Actions workflow status updates, GitHub Pages deployments, and check and workflow webhook events generated by Actions runs.
- monitoring Oct 19, 2026, 04:56 PM UTC
Actions, Pages and Webhooks are operating normally.
- resolved Oct 19, 2026, 04:56 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.