GitHub experienced a minor incident on August 26, 2026 affecting Pull Requests and Actions, lasting 1h 30m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 26, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pull Requests
- investigating Aug 26, 2026, 10:57 PM UTC
We are investigating elevated delays and timeouts affecting Actions workflow runs triggered by pull request events. 20% of actions runs have delayed starts of more than 5 minutes and up to 4% of runs failed to trigger. We are actively working on mitigation and will provide updates as we learn more.
- investigating Aug 27, 2026, 12:01 AM UTC
We've applied mitigations and are seeing recovery in Actions workflow runs and blocked pull request merges. We're continuing to monitor for sustained health of merge commit creates before resolving.
- investigating Aug 27, 2026, 12:25 AM UTC
We confirmed full recovery beginning at 23:58 UTC. Actions workflow runs and pull request merges are operating normally. We will now resolve the incident while continuing to monitor service health.
- monitoring Aug 27, 2026, 12:26 AM UTC
The degradation affecting Actions and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- resolved Aug 27, 2026, 12:26 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.