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Actions is experiencing degraded availability

Partial outage Lasted 1h 2m · started · GitHub's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
Actions
Down Index
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What to do

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 1h 2m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-03-05 22:53 UTC and 2026-03-05 23:55 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from GitHub 7

  1. investigating

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

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  2. investigating

    Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

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  3. investigating

    We applied a mitigation and we should see a recovery soon.

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  4. investigating

    Actions and dependent services, including Pages, are recovering.

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  5. investigating

    Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

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  6. investigating

    We are close to full recovery. Actions and dependent services should be functioning normally now.

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  7. resolved

    On March 5, between 22:39 and 23:55 UTC, Actions was degraded due to a repeat of an incident a few hours prior. In this case, a Redis cluster topology change made as a follow-up to the earlier incident caused a repeat of the earlier degradation of Actions jobs. Details of both incidents and the follow-ups are shared at https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/g5gnt5l5hf56.

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-9c3bf25e0f

Is GitHub still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-03-05 23:55 UTC. For GitHub's live state, see https://down.guide/github.

How long did it last?

1h 2m, from 2026-03-05 22:53 UTC to 2026-03-05 23:55 UTC, by the times GitHub posted.

What was affected?

GitHub named Actions.

What caused it?

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

Where does this come from?

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