Resolved · lasted 3 h
GitHub outage on October 22
Reports for GitHub jumped to 235 an hour and stayed high for 3 h.
- Started
- 2:00 PM
- October 22, 2026 · UTC
- Back to normal
- 5:00 PM
- 3 h later
- Peak
- 235/hr
- 5× normal
- GitHub’s incident
- 1 h 01 min
- Incident with Actions
Reports during the outage
What GitHub said
www.githubstatus.comIncident with Actions
- Resolved · 3:18 PM
This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.
- Monitoring · 3:18 PM
GitHub Actions workflow and step result processing has recovered. Repository update processing has also returned to normal.
- Monitoring · 3:17 PM
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- Investigating · 3:06 PM
We’re seeing recovery, and repository update processing has returned to normal. Delays affecting GitHub Actions workflow and step results are continuing to clear as we scale processing capacity; the remaining backlog is expected to take about 20 minutes to drain.
- Investigating · 2:35 PM
Repository update processing has recovered. We’re continuing to work on delays affecting GitHub Actions workflow and step results. We’ll share another update as we make progress.
- Investigating · 2:19 PM
We’re investigating delays in processing GitHub Actions workflow and step results, along with some repository updates.
- Investigating · 2:18 PM
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions
GitHub posted its first update 18 min after reports started rising.
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