Actions is experiencing degraded availability

highGitHubActionsMar 5, 2026 22:53Duration: 1h 2m
api
API Issue

Summary

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.

Impact

major

Timeline

Mar 5, 2026 22:53

[investigating] We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

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Mar 5, 2026 22:54

[investigating] Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

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+6m
Mar 5, 2026 23:00

[investigating] We applied a mitigation and we should see a recovery soon.

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+14m
Mar 5, 2026 23:15

[investigating] Actions and dependent services, including Pages, are recovering.

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+23m
Mar 5, 2026 23:37

[investigating] Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

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+2m
Mar 5, 2026 23:40

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

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+15m
Mar 5, 2026 23:55

[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.

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Lessons Learned

GitHub has experienced 39 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 182 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.