Live status & reliability report

GitHub Actions status, outages & reliability

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GitHub Actions is GitHub's built-in CI/CD service that runs workflows on GitHub-hosted or self-hosted runners.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 76 days GitHub Actions had 98.90% effective uptime across 20 status page incidents (8 partial or major outages), resolving them in 2h 21m on average.

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Uptime (90d)98.90%19h 46m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)205.6 per 30 days
Major / partial outages8
Avg time to resolve2h 21m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 17, 2026: no dataAug 18, 2026: 97.47% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 19, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026: no incidentsAug 24, 2026: 99.60% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 25, 2026: no incidentsAug 26, 2026: 87.56% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Aug 27, 2026: 99.72% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 28, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026: no incidentsSep 13, 2026: 93.83% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Sep 14, 2026: 99.42% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 15, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026: no incidentsOct 1, 2026: 98.03% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 2, 2026 – Oct 4, 2026: no incidentsOct 5, 2026: 84.87% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 6, 2026: no incidentsOct 7, 2026: 96.68% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Oct 8, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026: no incidentsOct 12, 2026: 95.05% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 13, 2026: no incidentsOct 14, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 15, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026: no incidentsOct 19, 2026: 95.30% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 20, 2026: no incidentsOct 21, 2026: 81.24% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 22, 2026: 94.03% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 23, 2026: 98.05% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 24, 2026 – Oct 25, 2026: no incidentsOct 26, 2026: 99.90% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 27, 2026 – Oct 29, 2026: no incidentsOct 30, 2026: 96.77% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 31, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago98.916% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about GitHub Actions's reliability

  • Since Aug 18, 2026, the earliest date its published history covers, GitHub Actions published 20 incidents on its status page, 8 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “Delays for Pull Requests and Webhook deliveries” on Oct 21, 2026, which lasted 4h 30m.
  • The part of GitHub Actions most often affected was Actions (16 of 20 incidents).
  • Incidents most often began on a Monday (6 of 20, UTC).
  • GitHub Actions's 90-day uptime of 98.90% is below the average for code hosting & CI platforms (99.35%).

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
35
98.909% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
25
5.56 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
82
2h 21m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

0481216DecJan ’26FebMarAprMayJunJul1 major outage incident3 degraded performance incidents4Aug1 major outage incident1 degraded performance incident2Sep5 major outage incidents1 partial outage incident8 degraded performance incidents14OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of GitHub Actions's public pages, measured by our probes.

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

GitHub Actions incident history (last 90 days)

Source: GitHub Actions status page · last checked

Our independent monitoring

We check these public GitHub Actions pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
Product pageUp 100%566 ms
Actions documentationUp 100%522 ms
REST API rootUp 100%220 ms

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GitHub Actions status FAQ

Is GitHub Actions down right now?

No, GitHub Actions is up and running. GitHub Actions's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the GitHub Actions pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is GitHub Actions?

GitHub Actions has a reliability score of 55.5 out of 100, ranking #8 of 10 code hosting & CI platforms. Over the last 90 days it had 98.90% effective uptime.

How often does GitHub Actions have outages?

GitHub Actions published 20 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (8 partial or major outages) and 20 in the past 12 months.

How long do GitHub Actions outages last?

GitHub Actions resolves incidents in 2h 21m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 4h 30m, on Oct 21, 2026.

Does GitHub Actions have a status page?

Yes. GitHub Actions's official status page is www.githubstatus.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.