Incident with Actions and Pull Requests

Incident Report for GitHub

Resolved

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.
Posted Aug 27, 2026 - 00:26 UTC

Monitoring

The degradation affecting Actions and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Posted Aug 27, 2026 - 00:26 UTC

Update

We confirmed full recovery beginning at 23:58 UTC. Actions workflow runs and pull request merges are operating normally. We will now resolve the incident while continuing to monitor service health.
Posted Aug 27, 2026 - 00:25 UTC

Update

We've applied mitigations and are seeing recovery in Actions workflow runs and blocked pull request merges. We're continuing to monitor for sustained health of merge commit creates before resolving.
Posted Aug 27, 2026 - 00:01 UTC

Update

We are investigating elevated delays and timeouts affecting Actions workflow runs triggered by pull request events. 20% of actions runs have delayed starts of more than 5 minutes and up to 4% of runs failed to trigger. We are actively working on mitigation and will provide updates as we learn more.
Posted Aug 26, 2026 - 22:57 UTC

Investigating

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pull Requests
Posted Aug 26, 2026 - 22:56 UTC
This incident affected: Pull Requests and Actions.