GitHub experienced a critical incident on May 26, 2026 affecting Actions and Pages, lasting 2h 21m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- 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.