GitHub Actions outage on Oct 5, 2026

What happened

GitHub Actions reported a major outage starting Oct 5, 2026, 19:11 UTC, affecting Actions, Pages. It was marked resolved at Oct 5, 2026, 22:49 UTC.

• The incident lasted 3h 38m from first report to resolution.
• It was the 2nd longest of 6 significant outages GitHub Actions reported in the 12 months up to it.
• GitHub Actions had reported 2 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 7 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from GitHub Actions

On October 5, 2026, between 18:48 and 22:49 UTC, GitHub Actions and Hosted Runners experienced degraded performance. Over the full incident, 14.3% of workflow runs using GitHub-hosted runners and 26.5% of individual GitHub-hosted jobs did not start within five minutes. <br /><br /> <br />During the roughly 90-minute period of highest impact, 47.0% of workflow runs using GitHub-hosted runners failed and 71.9% of GitHub-hosted jobs did not start within five minutes, while existing Pages sites continued to serve normally. A portion of customers also encountered intermittent errors in repository lists, licensing and billing pages, and some Copilot features. Self-hosted runners were not affected. <br /><br /><br />The incident was caused by a partial networking failure that disrupted connectivity between one of our on-premises datacenter regions and a subset of cloud-hosted regional database and storage services. <br /><br /><br />We mitigated the incident by shifting database and storage t

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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.

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• Major outageGitHubOct 5, 2026, 19:11 UTC

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