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Outage in GitHub

Incident with Actions

Resolved Minor
May 20, 2026 - Started about 20 hours ago - Lasted about 3 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

GitHub Actions experienced degraded performance for 3.3 hours, with a subset of runners taking longer than expected to connect and causing delays in job execution and queuing. The service applied mitigations to resolve the connectivity and queuing issues, with customer impact fully subsiding before deploying a permanent fix. The incident was resolved after monitoring confirmed stability and full recovery.

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

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RESOLVED about 17 hours ago - at 05/20/2026 08:14PM

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 05/20/2026 07:41PM

Customer impact has fully subsided. We are maintaining yellow status while we deploy a permanent fix to prevent recurrence.

MONITORING about 19 hours ago - at 05/20/2026 06:17PM

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.

MONITORING about 20 hours ago - at 05/20/2026 05:52PM

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

INVESTIGATING about 20 hours ago - at 05/20/2026 05:46PM

A subset of runners are taking longer than expected to connect, which may delay some jobs from beginning execution. We are actively working to mitigate the issue.

INVESTIGATING about 20 hours ago - at 05/20/2026 04:58PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

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