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Outage in GitHub

Incident with GitHub Actions

Resolved Major
July 20, 2026 - Started 1 day ago - Lasted about 5 hours
Official incident page

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

GitHub Actions experienced a major outage lasting approximately 5.2 hours, during which new workflows failed to start or were delayed, ongoing runs failed, and knock-on effects degraded API Requests, Issues, and GitHub Pages. Self-hosted and larger-hosted runners were among the last components to recover, requiring additional mitigation efforts beyond the initial fix. All affected services were fully restored by the end of the incident, with a root cause analysis to follow.

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

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RESOLVED 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 04:44AM

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 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 04:43AM

Actions has fully recovered, and we will continue to monitor the platform to ensure stability.

MONITORING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 03:34AM

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

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 03:27AM

We’re seeing recovery across all impacted Actions runners. The team is continuing to monitor for global recovery.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 03:03AM

API Requests is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 02:43AM

Issues, API Requests, and Pages have recovered. We are continuing to work on restoring GitHub Actions jobs using self-hosted or larger-hosted runners.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 02:23AM

API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 02:20AM

Issues is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 01:37AM

Pages is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 01:11AM

We continue to work on mitigative efforts to restore Actions workflow runners, and have observed that the extended downtime has started to cause knock-on effects to other services.

A separate incident was opened before we understood they were related. We will continue to post updates on this incident.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 12:52AM

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

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 12:49AM

Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 12:48AM

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

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 12:20AM

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

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/20/2026 12:07AM

API Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/19/2026 11:57PM

We have identified the cause of failures in GitHub Actions and are working to restore service.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/19/2026 11:37PM

We are investigating degraded availability for GitHub Actions on github.com and in GHEC DR stamps. New workflows may delay or fail to start, and ongoing runs may fail. We will provide more information as soon as we can.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 07/19/2026 11:34PM

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

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