Outage report · Major outage

GitHub Actions outage on Aug 26, 2026

Incident with Actions

SeverityMajor outage

StartedAug 26, 2026, 15:11UTC

ResolvedAug 26, 2026, 18:01UTC

Duration2h 50m

What happened

GitHub Actions reported a major outage starting Aug 26, 2026, 15:11 UTC, affecting Actions, Pages. It was marked resolved at Aug 26, 2026, 18:01 UTC.

The incident lasted 2h 50m from first report to resolution.
It was the 3rd longest of 6 significant outages GitHub Actions reported in the 12 months up to it.
GitHub Actions had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
12 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from GitHub Actions

On August 26, 2026 from 15:02 to 15:45 UTC, Actions jobs failed to start. The following 2 hours until 17:40 UTC, Actions runs were delayed starting by more than 5 minutes as the system caught up with delayed load. This impact was triggered by saturation of writes to the database primary used by the service processing triggers for Actions workflows. The primary was failed over, but the system did not fully recover. The saturation was caused by growing daily peak load combined with an upstream issue in GitHub’s event processing infrastructure, https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f, which caused burst amplification of already-high load. Downstream throttles that were later used to recover were set ~10% too high to protect the system. <br /><br />At 15:45 UTC, throttling combined with service restarts recovered the service’s core health. Those throttles were gradually raised between 15:54 and 17:22 to restore full webhook processing for Actions runs. This ramp was deliberate

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