GitHub outage, 9 November 2026
Incident with Actions and Checks API
- Started
- Resolved
- 9 Nov 2026, 18:59 UTC (after 47 min)
- Impact
- Critical
- Affected
- Webhooks, Actions, Pages
Is this still happening?
No. GitHub marked this incident resolved on 9 Nov 2026, 18:59 UTC, 47 min after it began.
Right now: GitHub reports degraded performance on some systems. (as of 13 Nov, 20:53 UTC) Live GitHub status
At a glance
- GitHub rated this a critical incident (major outage).
- It was resolved after 47 min. That is shorter than a typical GitHub incident: the median of the 55 other resolved ones we recorded is 1 h 15 min.
- GitHub had 29 other incidents in the 30 days before it.
- 5 earlier incidents look like the same kind of problem (same affected part or wording); the most recent was on 11 Nov 2026.
- GitHub said a root cause analysis would follow; it has not appeared on the status page yet.
Our summary from the GitHub incidents we have recorded since 31 Aug 2026 - how we count.
GitHub has said a root cause analysis will follow. We add it to this page when it is posted on the status page.
Last update from GitHub
On November 9, 2026, between 18:07 and 18:59 UTC, GitHub Actions experienced degraded performance. During this time, some customers saw workflow runs fail to start, update or report status correctly. An average of 28% of workflow runs were affected, peaking at 65% during the worst period of the incident. Once Actions services recovered, some jobs were left in a state that limited available concurrency until the runs were released. <br /><br />The incident occurred during a planned migration of a core Actions database from GitHub’s datacenter to a new cloud region. After the migration completed, we shifted Actions service traffic to the new region. The volume of requests exceeded the capacity...
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