Current answer
GitHub experienced a minor incident: Actions Job Delays. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Oct 1, 2026.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Actions
Incident Timeline
Investigating
GitHub Actions experienced degraded performance for some hosted runners due to throttling within an upstream Azure dependency. Service capacity has recovered, and we are continuing to monitor while working with Azure on the underlying condition.
Oct 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM UTC
Investigating
We are currently applying a mitigation and anticipate recovery within thirty minutes.
Oct 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM UTC
Investigating
We have identified an issue with our upstream provider which is causing Actions requests to 429 which is creating the delays. We have escalated to the owning team and are investigating how to mitigate the 429s.
Oct 1, 2026 at 4:10 PM UTC
Investigating
We are seeing a reoccurrence in run-start delays, and are continuing to investigate to issue. Customers will potentially experience delays of up to ten minutes.
Oct 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM UTC
Investigating
Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Oct 1, 2026 at 3:20 PM UTC
Monitoring
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
Oct 1, 2026 at 3:10 PM UTC
Investigating
Run-start delays on Ubuntu runners have been resolved. We are investigating run-start delays on Windows runners and will share more information as it becomes available.
Oct 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM UTC
Investigating
We have identified the cause of increased Actions run start delays on Ubuntu runners and are actively deploying a fix. Customers may continue to experience intermittent delays while the mitigation rolls out and service metrics return to normal.
Oct 1, 2026 at 2:54 PM UTC
Investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions
Oct 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM UTC
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