Incident with GitHub Actions

criticalGitHubActionsJul 19, 2026 23:34Duration: 5h 10m
api
API Issue

Summary

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.

Impact

critical

Timeline

Jul 19, 2026 23:34

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

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+4m
Jul 19, 2026 23:37

[investigating] We are investigating degraded availability for GitHub Actions on github.com and in GHEC DR stamps. New workflows may delay or fail to start, and ongoing runs may fail. We will provide more information as soon as we can.

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+19m
Jul 19, 2026 23:57

[investigating] We have identified the cause of failures in GitHub Actions and are working to restore service.

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+10m
Jul 20, 2026 00:07

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

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+13m
Jul 20, 2026 00:20

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

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+28m
Jul 20, 2026 00:48

[investigating] Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

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+1m
Jul 20, 2026 00:49

[investigating] Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

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+3m
Jul 20, 2026 00:52

[investigating] Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

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+19m
Jul 20, 2026 01:11

[investigating] We continue to work on mitigative efforts to restore Actions workflow runners, and have observed that the extended downtime has started to cause knock-on effects to other services.<br /><br />A separate incident was opened before we understood they were related. We will continue to post updates on this incident.

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+26m
Jul 20, 2026 01:37

[investigating] Pages is operating normally.

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+43m
Jul 20, 2026 02:20

[investigating] Issues is operating normally.

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+4m
Jul 20, 2026 02:23

[investigating] API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

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+20m
Jul 20, 2026 02:43

[investigating] Issues, API Requests, and Pages have recovered. We are continuing to work on restoring GitHub Actions jobs using self-hosted or larger-hosted runners.

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+20m
Jul 20, 2026 03:03

[investigating] API Requests is operating normally.

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+23m
Jul 20, 2026 03:27

[investigating] We’re seeing recovery across all impacted Actions runners. The team is continuing to monitor for global recovery.

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+8m
Jul 20, 2026 03:34

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

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+1h 9m
Jul 20, 2026 04:43

[monitoring] Actions has fully recovered, and we will continue to monitor the platform to ensure stability.

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+0m
Jul 20, 2026 04:44

[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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Lessons Learned

GitHub has experienced 116 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 746 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: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.