Actions and Codespaces APIs experiencing partial failures

highGitHubActionsJul 7, 2026 14:14Duration: 2h 3m
apiauthentication
Authentication IssueAPI Issue

Summary

On July 7, 2026, between 14:01 UTC and 16:17 UTC the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs were degraded and returned intermittent 500-class errors for a percentage of requests. Error rates peaked at approximately 8% of Actions runner API requests and 13% of Codespaces API requests, though retries were frequently successful. In-progress Actions runs and Codespaces were not impacted and continued successfully. This was due to a recent change that did not deliver the expected performance and, under cer

Impact

major

Timeline

Jul 7, 2026 14:14

[investigating] We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Codespaces

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Jul 7, 2026 14:14

[investigating] Customers accessing the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs may see 500 class errors a small percentage of the time.<br /><br />Actions runs in progress are continuing successfully.

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Jul 7, 2026 14:32

[investigating] Codespaces is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

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Jul 7, 2026 14:47

[investigating] Customers accessing the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs may see 500 class errors a percentage of the time.  Retries may be successful.<br /><br />Actions runs and codespaces  in progress are continuing successfully.<br /><br />We are continuing to investigate the source of these errors.

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Jul 7, 2026 15:06

[investigating] Customers accessing Actions runners and Codespaces REST APIs continue to see 500 errors a percentage of the time. Retries may be successful.<br /><br />We continue to investigate the source of these errors.

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Jul 7, 2026 15:50

[investigating] Customers will continue to see 500 errors for approximately 8% of Actions runner REST APIs and 13% of Codespaces REST APIs. Retries may be successful. We have identified a likely cause and are preparing a mitigation.

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Jul 7, 2026 16:00

[investigating] We have rolled out the mitigation and are seeing recovery.

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Jul 7, 2026 16:02

[monitoring] The degradation affecting Actions and Codespaces has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

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Jul 7, 2026 16:17

[resolved] 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.

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Jul 7, 2026 16:17

[resolved] On July 7, 2026, between 14:01 UTC and 16:17 UTC the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs were degraded and returned intermittent 500-class errors for a percentage of requests. Error rates peaked at approximately 8% of Actions runner API requests and 13% of Codespaces API requests, though retries were frequently successful. In-progress Actions runs and Codespaces were not impacted and continued successfully. This was due to a recent change that did not deliver the expected performance and, under certain conditions, caused downstream errors.<br /><br />We mitigated the incident by rolling back the change, after which the affected services recovered.<br /><br />We are working to improve the resilience of our services to these conditions and to strengthen our monitoring to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of issues like this one in the future.

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Lessons Learned

GitHub has experienced 114 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api, authentication have occurred 816 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Authentication Issue, API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.