GitHub outage, 1 October 2026
Actions Job Delays
- Started
- Resolved
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:56 UTC (after 3 h 9 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- Actions
Last update from GitHub
On October 1, 2026, GitHub Actions experienced two periods of delayed and failed job starts on GitHub-hosted runners, beginning at approximately 14:15 UTC. Across the 14:15-17:56 UTC incident-response window, approximately 0.68% of workflow runs experienced start delays, and 0.196% of jobs failed to start. <br /><br />A routing change at our cloud provider concentrated API traffic on a single backend, causing an increase in rate-limit errors. Incorrect retry behavior in the provider’s inventory service added load to the affected APIs, compounding the rate limiting. This disrupted runner provisioning and reduced available capacity in affected regions. The resulting increase in demand in unaff...
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