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Outage in GitHub

Disruption with some GitHub services

Resolved Minor
April 28, 2026 - Started about 5 hours ago - Lasted about 3 hours
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Summary AI Generated

GitHub Actions experienced degraded performance affecting hosted Ubuntu runners (ubuntu-latest and ubuntu-24.04), with up to 5% of jobs experiencing delays or failures due to capacity constraints. The issue was gradually mitigated over 3.2 hours, with impact decreasing from 5% to less than 1% of affected jobs before full resolution. Self-hosted runners and other hosted runner types remained unaffected throughout the incident.

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
Components affected
GitHub Actions

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RESOLVED about 2 hours ago - at 04/28/2026 05:09PM

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 about 2 hours ago - at 04/28/2026 04:36PM

Less than 1% of hosted ubuntu-latest runs are delayed. We’re working through remaining steps to restore runner capacity.

INVESTIGATING about 3 hours ago - at 04/28/2026 03:41PM

Currently less than 2% of hosted ubuntu-latest and ubuntu-24.04 runs are delayed or failing. We are continuing to monitor for full recovery.

INVESTIGATING about 4 hours ago - at 04/28/2026 03:20PM

We've applied a mitigation to unblock running Actions. We're continuing to monitor.

INVESTIGATING about 4 hours ago - at 04/28/2026 02:49PM

We're still investigating the root cause for run start delays and failures for Actions hosted Ubuntu jobs, around 5% of jobs are impacted as of now.

INVESTIGATING about 5 hours ago - at 04/28/2026 02:02PM

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

MONITORING about 5 hours ago - at 04/28/2026 01:59PM

Actions is experiencing capacity constraints with hosted ubuntu-latest and ubuntu-24.02, leading to high wait times. Other hosted labels and self-hosted runners are not impacted.

INVESTIGATING about 5 hours ago - at 04/28/2026 01:59PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

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