GitHub outage, 5 October 2026
Incident with Actions
- Started
- Resolved
- 5 Oct 2026, 22:49 UTC (after 3 h 37 min)
- Impact
- Critical
- Affected
- Actions, Pages
Last update from GitHub
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....
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