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GitHub outage on November 4, 2026: Incident with Actions

GitHub reported an incident affecting GitHub for 36 minutes on 4 November 2026, from 17:40 to 18:16 UTC.

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Resolved

Official incident reported by GitHub

Started
17:40
4 Nov 2026 UTC
Resolved
18:16
4 Nov 2026 UTC
Duration
36m
36 minutes
Impact
Major
as rated by GitHub
Updates
4
posted by GitHub

Timeline

All times UTC.

Official incident from GitHub

Incident with Actions

Resolved Major impact 4 Nov 2026 17:40 UTC View on GitHub's status page
  1. Official
    Investigating

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

  2. Official
    Investigating

    We have identified an issue with events that might trigger Actions. We have applied mitigations and are monitoring for recovery at this point. Customers may observe delayed status updates for their jobs.

  3. Official
    Monitoring

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

  4. Official
    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.

"Official" rows are quoted from GitHub's public status page, www.githubstatus.com. Very long posts are shortened.

What our checkpoints saw

HostTracker's checkpoints, which test github.com from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live GitHub status shows what our checks see right now.

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