GitHub outage, November 2026: Incident with Actions and Pages

GitHub reported and resolved an incident: Incident with Actions and Pages. It lasted 56 minutes.

Resolved

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

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
56 minutes
Impact
major
Affected
Webhooks, Actions, Pages
  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 performance for Actions and Pages

  2. investigating

    We are investigating reports of issues with Actions and Pages. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation.

  3. investigating

    Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  4. investigating

    Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

  5. 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.

  6. investigating

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

  7. monitoring

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

  8. monitoring

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

  9. 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 56 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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