Current answer
GitHub experienced a minor incident: Incident with Actions and Pull Requests. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Aug 27, 2026.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Pull Requests
Actions
Incident Timeline
Investigating
We've applied mitigations and are seeing recovery in Actions workflow runs and blocked pull request merges. We're continuing to monitor for sustained health of merge commit creates before resolving.
Aug 27, 2026 at 12:01 AM UTC
Investigating
We are investigating elevated delays and timeouts affecting Actions workflow runs triggered by pull request events. 20% of actions runs have delayed starts of more than 5 minutes and up to 4% of runs failed to trigger. We are actively working on mitigation and will provide updates as we learn more.
Aug 26, 2026 at 10:57 PM UTC
Investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pull Requests
Aug 26, 2026 at 10:56 PM UTC
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