GitHub outage, November 2026: Incident with Actions

GitHub reported and resolved an incident: Incident with Actions. It lasted 36 minutes.

Resolved

From GitHub's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
36 minutes
Impact
major
Affected
Actions
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  3. Monitoring
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

GitHub has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

How it was resolved

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

GitHub's closing update

This incident on the GitHub status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From GitHub's official status page, in their words.

  1. investigating

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

  2. investigating

    We have identified an issue with events that might trigger Actions. We have applied mitigations and are monitoring for recovery at this point. Customers may observe delayed status updates for their jobs.

  3. monitoring

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

  4. resolved

    This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 36 minutes.
  • Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
  • If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.

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