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Outage in GitHub

Multiple services are affected, service degradation

Resolved Major
March 05, 2026 - Started 2 days ago - Lasted about 3 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

GitHub experienced a major service incident affecting Actions and Webhooks, with Actions suffering from significant delays in queuing workflow runs (up to 6+ minutes) and both services experiencing degraded availability. The incident lasted 3 hours and was resolved after GitHub applied mitigations for backend connection failures and restored nominal queueing rates for Actions workflows.

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions
Components affected
GitHub Webhooks GitHub Actions

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 1 day ago - at 03/05/2026 07:30PM

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.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 03/05/2026 07:17PM

Webhooks is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 03/05/2026 07:05PM

Actions is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 03/05/2026 06:59PM

Actions is now fully recovered.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 03/05/2026 06:15PM

The queue of requested Actions jobs continues to make progress. Job delays are now approximately 6 minutes and continuing to decrease.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 03/05/2026 05:48PM

We are back to queueing Actions workflow runs at nominal rates and we are monitoring the clearing of queued runs during the incident.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 03/05/2026 05:25PM

We have applied mitigations for connection failures across backend resources and we are observing a recovery in queueing Actions workflow runs.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 03/05/2026 04:52PM

We are observing delays in queuing Actions workflow runs. We’re still investigating the causes of these delays.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 03/05/2026 04:47PM

Webhooks is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 03/05/2026 04:41PM

Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 03/05/2026 04:35PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

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