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

12:00 PM6:50 PM UTC

What GitHub said

www.githubstatus.com
Resolved2:18 – 3:18 PM · 1 h 01 min

Incident with Actions

  1. 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.

  2. Monitoring · 3:18 PM

    GitHub Actions workflow and step result processing has recovered. Repository update processing has also returned to normal.

  3. Monitoring · 3:17 PM

    The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Investigating · 2:19 PM

    We’re investigating delays in processing GitHub Actions workflow and step results, along with some repository updates.

  7. 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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