GitHub experienced a major incident on July 29, 2026 affecting Actions, lasting 34m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 29, 2026, 03:26 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions
- investigating Jul 29, 2026, 03:34 PM UTC
We are investigating an issue affecting GitHub Actions. Some customers may experience timeouts or failures with runner registration and workflow runs may be delayed during startup. Our team is actively working to mitigate the impact by scaling capacity across additional infrastructure.
- monitoring Jul 29, 2026, 03:40 PM UTC
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- resolved Jul 29, 2026, 04:00 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.