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GitHub outage: Incident with Actions

GitHub reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Nov 4, 2026, 17:40 UTC. It was resolved after 36 min.

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Nov 4, 2026, 17:40 UTC
started
Nov 4, 2026, 18:16 UTC
resolved
36 min
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Actions
  1. resolvedNov 4, 2026, 18:16 UTC

    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. monitoringNov 4, 2026, 18:07 UTC

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

  3. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 17:53 UTC

    We have identified an issue with events that might trigger Actions. We have applied mitigations and are monitoring for recovery at this point. Customers may observe delayed status updates for their jobs.

  4. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 17:40 UTC

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Nov 4, 2026, 16:49 UTCdegraded → operational
  • Nov 4, 2026, 17:49 UTCoperational → degraded
  • Nov 4, 2026, 18:09 UTCdegraded → operational

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