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GitHub outage: Actions run failures and delays

GitHub reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Jul 25, 2026, 12:31 UTC. It was resolved after 42 min.

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Jul 25, 2026, 12:31 UTC
started
Jul 25, 2026, 13:13 UTC
resolved
42 min
duration
Critical
impact

Affected components

  • Actions
  1. resolvedJul 25, 2026, 13:13 UTC

    Please refer to the combined summary in this related incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/s65j9gslmfm8

  2. monitoringJul 25, 2026, 13:12 UTC

    We have seen recovery in GitHub Actions performance following our earlier mitigation. Workflow runs are processing normally, though jobs queued before 12:40 UTC may still experience failures and will need to be retried.

  3. monitoringJul 25, 2026, 12:59 UTC

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

  4. investigatingJul 25, 2026, 12:58 UTC

    We have applied a mitigation for the infrastructure issue affecting GitHub Actions. Workflow run failures and delays are improving but not yet fully resolved. Our engineering team continues to work on restoring full functionality across all affected infrastructure.

  5. investigatingJul 25, 2026, 12:34 UTC

    We are experiencing issues with GitHub Actions that are causing workflow run failures and delays for some users. Our engineering team is actively investigating the infrastructure issue and working to restore full functionality.

  6. investigatingJul 25, 2026, 12:31 UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in GitHub's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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GitHub outage on Jul 25, 2026: Actions run failures and delays · APIStatus.watch