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Disruption with actions hosted runners

Degraded Lasted 1h 26m · started · GitHub Actions's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Actions
Down Index
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Updates from GitHub Actions 5

  1. investigating

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

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  2. investigating

    Approximately 3% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners are experiencing run start delays exceeding 5 minutes. A small portion of these runs may fail after extended delays. We have identified the cause and are working on a mitigation.

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  3. investigating

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

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  4. monitoring

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

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  5. resolved

    On July 22, 2026, between 19:36 UTC and 22:04 UTC, GitHub Actions experienced delayed and failed job starts on GitHub-hosted runners. The incident was caused by an unhealthy state in a backend data service responsible for provisioning hosted runners, preventing runner acquisition for a subset of workloads. During most of the incident, approximately 15% of workflow runs on hosted runners were delayed by more than 5 minutes, while roughly 1% failed to start. At 21:49 UTC, we restored the health of the backend data replication system, allowing provisioning to recover and the accumulated workflow backlog to drain. Service performance then returned to expected levels. We are improving provisioning-service resiliency, workload distribution, and capacity balancing to reduce the likelihood and impact of similar incidents.

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Questions about DWN-f8190c359f

Is GitHub Actions still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-07-22 22:09 UTC. For GitHub Actions's live state, see https://down.guide/github-actions.

How long did it last?

1h 26m, from 2026-07-22 20:43 UTC to 2026-07-22 22:09 UTC, by the times GitHub Actions posted.

What was affected?

GitHub Actions named Actions.

What caused it?

GitHub Actions hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

GitHub Actions's official status page, https://www.githubstatus.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.