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GitHub: Incident with Actions and Checks API

  1. Investigating(done)
  2. Trending(skipped)
  3. Workaround available(skipped)
  4. Resolved(current)

Executive summary

GitHub experienced an outage with elevated error rates and degraded availability affecting GitHub Actions, the Checks API, Webhooks, and GitHub Pages. The issue was monitored and subsequently resolved.

No verified workaround yet

This incident was resolved upstream without a reported workaround.

Official fix
Technical root cause

Under active investigation. No report has identified a root cause yet.

Evidence

5 reports · 1 Status, 2 HN, 2 BlueskyShow
  1. [1]
    Status First report
    Incident with Actions and Checks API(opens official status page in a new tab)

    Investigating: We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions Update: Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Update: Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. Update: We're investigating elevated errors affecting GitHub Actions and the Checks API. We'll share another update as we learn more. Update: Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. Monitoring: The…

    by github status

  2. [2]
    HN
    GitHub Actions Is Down(opens Hacker News thread in a new tab)

    by isaacdl 11upvotes 1comments90% match

  3. [3]
    Bluesky
    ⚠️ GitHub is reporting an incident: Incident with Actions(opens the official status page in a new tab)

    ⚠️ GitHub is reporting an incident: Incident with Actions Update: Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. t.lpl.dev/LAivmw5

    by telescope.littleplanetlabs.comOpens the official status page 0upvotes 1comments96% match

  4. [4]
    HN
    Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage(opens Hacker News thread in a new tab)

    Have you guys moved to any other self hosted platform? I'm so tired of this, Github is by far the flakiest service I pay for. Easily.

    by sergiotapia 13upvotes 4comments86% match

  5. [5]
    Bluesky
    ✅ Resolved: GitHub - Incident with Actions and Checks API(opens the official status page in a new tab)

    ✅ Resolved: GitHub - Incident with Actions and Checks API

    by telescope.littleplanetlabs.comOpens the official status page 0upvotes 0comments89% match

Timeline

  1. First report on status page

    Incident with Actions and Checks API

    Source
  2. Official statement

    Investigating: We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions Update: Actions is experiencing degraded availability.

    Source
  3. Status changed

    Status changed: new → resolved (official status page reports resolution).

  4. Confirmed on Hacker News thread

    GitHub Actions Is Down

    Source
  5. Confirmed on Bluesky post

    ⚠️ GitHub is reporting an incident: Incident with Actions

    Source
  6. Official statement

    ⚠️ GitHub is reporting an incident: Incident with Actions Update: Actions is experiencing degraded availability.

    Source
  7. Official statement

    ✅ Resolved: GitHub - Incident with Actions and Checks API

    Source