Incident with Actions

Update timeline

1. investigating Aug 18, 2026, 06:36 AM UTC

   We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

2. investigating Aug 18, 2026, 06:49 AM UTC

   We are currently investigating an issue affecting some GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) with data residency customers.

3. investigating Aug 18, 2026, 08:37 AM UTC

   The team continues to investigate issues with some Actions jobs being queued for a long time and a percentage of jobs failing. We will continue providing updates on the progress towards mitigation.

4. investigating Aug 18, 2026, 09:38 AM UTC

   The team continues to investigate issues related to Larger Runners, with some Actions jobs being queued for a long time and a percentage of jobs failing. We will continue providing updates on the progress towards mitigation.

5. investigating Aug 18, 2026, 10:22 AM UTC

   We have identified the source of a communication issue between Actions services and are working toward mitigation. Larger Runners remain impacted, with some Actions jobs being queued for a long time and a percentage of jobs failing.

6. investigating Aug 18, 2026, 11:05 AM UTC

   We have applied a mitigation and are seeing recovery signals in the target region. We are now working to apply the mitigation to the remaining regions and will continue to monitor for recovery.

7. investigating Aug 18, 2026, 11:49 AM UTC

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

8. resolved Aug 18, 2026, 11:51 AM 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.