Outage report · Major outage
GitHub Actions outage on Oct 7, 2026
Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests
What happened
GitHub Actions reported a major outage starting Oct 7, 2026, 17:17 UTC, affecting Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions. It was marked resolved at Oct 7, 2026, 18:04 UTC.
- The incident lasted 48m from first report to resolution.
- GitHub Actions had reported 4 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 8 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from GitHub Actions
On October 7, 2026, from 16:52 to 17:01 UTC, GitHub experienced a recurrence of the write-operation outage from earlier that day. Both outages shared the same root cause. Please refer to the combined summary covering both incidents, their impact, and our prevention measures: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7
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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