GitHub outage, 19 October 2026

Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks

Started
Resolved
19 Oct 2026, 16:56 UTC (after 1 h 7 min)
Impact
Critical
Affected
Webhooks, Actions, Pages

Is this still happening?

No. GitHub marked this incident resolved on 19 Oct 2026, 16:56 UTC, 1 h 7 min after it began.

Right now: GitHub reports all systems operational. (as of 26 Oct, 03:45 UTC) Live GitHub status

Last update from GitHub

On October 19, 2026, between 15:24 and 16:52 UTC, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, and webhooks generated by Actions were degraded. Live updates on GitHub.com and code search were also degraded for part of this time. No data was lost. <br /><br />Impact <br /><br /> - Workflow status updates, logs, and checks were delayed. <br /> - 5.13% of jobs on GitHub-hosted runners were delayed in starting, and 0.02% of workflow runs failed. <br /> - During the first 30 minutes, 8.47% of requests to the Actions jobs REST API returned errors. <br /><br />Pages deployments and webhooks generated by Actions runs were delayed. <br /><br />An internal Actions service that stores logs and run status lost connect...

19 Oct 2026, 16:56 UTC

Read the full incident on the official GitHub status page

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