Outage report · Major outage
GitHub Actions outage on Oct 19, 2026
Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks
What happened
GitHub Actions reported a major outage starting Oct 19, 2026, 15:49 UTC, affecting Webhooks, Actions, Pages. It was marked resolved at Oct 19, 2026, 16:56 UTC.
- The incident lasted 1h 8m from first report to resolution.
- GitHub Actions had reported 5 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 10 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from GitHub Actions
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
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of GitHub Actions started after this incident, so this report is based on GitHub Actions's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
GitHub Actions's overall reliability
GitHub Actions has a reliability score of 55.6/100, with 98.91% effective uptime and 20 incidents over the last 90 days.
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