Outage in GitHub

Incident with Actions, we are investigating reports of degraded availability

Resolved Major

May 06, 2026 - Started about 20 hours ago - Lasted about 2 hours
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Summary AI Generated

GitHub Actions experienced degraded availability for 2.4 hours, with ubuntu standard hosted runners causing high wait times and issues with queuing and running jobs. The service team applied a mitigation to resolve the queuing and execution problems, then monitored for stability before declaring the incident fully resolved.

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

Components affected

GitHub Actions

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED about 18 hours ago - at 05/06/2026 09:44AM

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.

MONITORING about 18 hours ago - at 05/06/2026 09:19AM

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

INVESTIGATING about 18 hours ago - at 05/06/2026 09:08AM

We've applied a mitigation to fix the issues with queuing and running Actions jobs. We are seeing improvements in telemetry and are monitoring for full recovery.

INVESTIGATING about 19 hours ago - at 05/06/2026 08:00AM

Actions is experiencing issues with ubuntu standard hosted runners leading to high wait times. We are actively investigating the issue

INVESTIGATING about 20 hours ago - at 05/06/2026 07:19AM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

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