GitHub reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 19, 2026, 15:49 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 8m.
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On October 19, 2026, between 15:24 and 16:52 UTC, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, and webhooks generated by Actions were degraded. Live updates on GitHub.com and code search were also degraded for part of this time. No data was lost. <br /><br />Impact <br /><br /> - Workflow status updates, logs, and checks were delayed. <br /> - 5.13% of jobs on GitHub-hosted runners were delayed in starting, and 0.02% of workflow runs failed. <br /> - During the first 30 minutes, 8.47% of requests to the Actions jobs REST API returned errors. <br /><br />Pages deployments and webhooks generated by Actions runs were delayed. <br /><br />An internal Actions service that stores logs and run status lost connections to some of its cache servers in one cloud region and immediately retried them from every server at once. The resulting surge of new connections overloaded a shared network link between our data center and that region, which also disrupted other services that use the same link. We mitigated the
Actions, Pages and Webhooks are operating normally.
We’re seeing recovery following mitigation and are continuing to monitor. <br /><br />Customers may still experience delays in GitHub Actions workflow status updates, GitHub Pages deployments, and check and workflow webhook events generated by Actions runs.
We’re are currently investigating degraded availability affecting GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks. <br /><br />Customers may experience delays in workflow processing, site builds and webhook delivery.<br />
Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pages
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