GitHub experienced a minor incident on May 20, 2026 affecting Actions, lasting 3h 15m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating May 20, 2026, 04:58 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions
- investigating May 20, 2026, 05:46 PM UTC
A subset of runners are taking longer than expected to connect, which may delay some jobs from beginning execution. We are actively working to mitigate the issue.
- monitoring May 20, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- monitoring May 20, 2026, 06:17 PM 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.
- monitoring May 20, 2026, 07:41 PM UTC
Customer impact has fully subsided. We are maintaining yellow status while we deploy a permanent fix to prevent recurrence.
- resolved May 20, 2026, 08:14 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.