GitHub outage on October 1, 2026: [Retroactive] Actions workflow run failures after deployment gate approvals
GitHub reported an incident affecting GitHub for 1 minute on 1 October 2026, from 02:00 to 02:00 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by GitHub
- Started
- 02:00
- 1 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 02:00
- 1 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- <1m
- 1 minute
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by GitHub
- Updates
- 1
- posted by GitHub
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from GitHub
[Retroactive] Actions workflow run failures after deployment gate approvals
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Official
Resolved
On October 1, around 02:00 UTC, an isolated infrastructure failure caused GitHub Actions to lose execution state for a small number of existing workflow runs. Affected runs may remain stuck, fail deployment approvals, or return errors when cancelled. Service connectivity has recovered, but the lost state cannot be restored by retrying an approval. If you're affected, you can trigger a new run or contact GitHub Support with links to your stuck runs so we can unblock them. Once cleared, select "Re-run all jobs." This preserves the workflow run ID but starts a new attempt, rebuilds artifacts, and requires fresh deployment approvals. Before rerunning, check whether any deployment steps already completed to avoid repeating changes.
"Official" rows are quoted from GitHub's public status page, www.githubstatus.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
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