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GitHub · Developer toolsOct 5, 2026, 19:11 UTC yesterday

Incident with Actions

CriticalNot disclosedUpdated 5h ago
  • Type changed from degraded to outage on Oct 5, 2026
  • Impact changed from Minor to Critical on Oct 5, 2026
Oct 5, 19:11 UTCOct 5, 22:49 UTC
Duration
3h 38m
Impact
Critical
Root cause
Not disclosed
GitHub, 90 days
69 incidents
Affected
ActionsPages
Status page

Final update

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.

Timeline

  1. Resolved · Oct 5, 22:49 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.
  2. Investigating · Oct 5, 22:40 UTC
    Pages is operating normally.
  3. Investigating · Oct 5, 21:54 UTC
    Actions is operating normally.
  4. Investigating · Oct 5, 21:32 UTC
    We have applied mitigations to address GitHub Actions failures. Queued jobs are clearing, new jobs are not delayed, and we expect full runner recovery shortly. We continue to monitor for full recovery and are working to mitigate ongoing issues affecting other services, including access to repository lists, licensing, and billing pages.
  5. Investigating · Oct 5, 21:31 UTC
    Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
  6. Investigating · Oct 5, 21:22 UTC
    Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
  7. Investigating · Oct 5, 21:09 UTC
    In addition to ongoing issues with Actions and Hosted Runners, some customers are also unable to access repository list, licensing and billing pages within their GitHub accounts. We continue to investigate and are working on mitigation.
  8. Investigating · Oct 5, 20:47 UTC
    Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
  9. Investigating · Oct 5, 20:39 UTC
    We’re continuing to investigate job failures and delays affecting GitHub-hosted runner assignment and workflow start times. Our teams are actively working to mitigate the impact and will provide another update as we learn more.
  10. Investigating · Oct 5, 19:50 UTC
    We’re still investigating delays in assigning GitHub-hosted runners, affecting workflow start times across multiple runner configurations. Our teams are working to mitigate the impact; we’ll share another update as we learn more.
  11. Investigating · Oct 5, 19:15 UTC
    We’re investigating an issue causing delays when assigning GitHub-hosted runners to Actions jobs. Some workflows may take longer to start across runner configurations. Our teams are working to mitigate the issue, and we’ll provide an update as we learn more.
  12. Investigating · Oct 5, 19:11 UTC
    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

More from GitHub

Full history
StartedIncidentDuration
Oct 523:47 UTCyesterdayDisruption with some GitHub services1h 45m
Oct 114:47 UTC5 days agoActions Job Delays3h 9m
Oct 113:37 UTC5 days agoElevated request latency20m
Oct 111:34 UTC5 days ago[Retroactive] Actions workflow run failures after deployment gate approvals0m
Sep 2821:16 UTC8 days agoCopilot Code Review is unable to complete reviews52m
Sep 2416:51 UTC12 days agoDisruption with billing information updates3h 50m

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