Disruption with actions hosted runners

lowGitHubActionsJul 22, 2026 20:43Duration: 1h 26m

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

minor

Timeline

Jul 22, 2026 20:43

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

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+3m

Jul 22, 2026 20:47

[investigating] Approximately 3% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners are experiencing run start delays exceeding 5 minutes. A small portion of these runs may fail after extended delays. We have identified the cause and are working on a mitigation.

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+1h 15m

Jul 22, 2026 22:01

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

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+0m

Jul 22, 2026 22:01

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

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+7m

Jul 22, 2026 22:09

[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 118 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 771 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.