Actions run failures and delays

criticalGitHubActionsJul 25, 2026 12:31Duration: 42m

computeapi

Capacity IssueAPI Issue

Summary

Please refer to the combined summary in this related incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/s65j9gslmfm8

Impact

critical

Timeline

Jul 25, 2026 12:31

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

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+3m

Jul 25, 2026 12:34

[investigating] We are experiencing issues with GitHub Actions that are causing workflow run failures and delays for some users. Our engineering team is actively investigating the infrastructure issue and working to restore full functionality.

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+24m

Jul 25, 2026 12:58

[investigating] We have applied a mitigation for the infrastructure issue affecting GitHub Actions. Workflow run failures and delays are improving but not yet fully resolved. Our engineering team continues to work on restoring full functionality across all affected infrastructure.

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+1m

Jul 25, 2026 12:59

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

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+13m

Jul 25, 2026 13:12

[monitoring] We have seen recovery in GitHub Actions performance following our earlier mitigation. Workflow runs are processing normally, though jobs queued before 12:40 UTC may still experience failures and will need to be retried.

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+1m

Jul 25, 2026 13:13

[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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+0m

Jul 25, 2026 13:13

[resolved] Please refer to the combined summary in this related incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/s65j9gslmfm8

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Lessons Learned

⚠GitHub has experienced 127 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to compute, api have occurred 899 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: Capacity Issue, API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.