What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on May 26, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 1 hour 60 minutes.
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Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 13:01 | Monitoring | The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 13:00 | Monitoring | The degradation affecting Actions and Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 12:37 | Investigating | We have identified the cause of the authentication issues affecting GitHub Actions and are actively working on mitigation |
| 12:17 | Investigating | Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 11:53 | Investigating | We are investigating authentication issues leading to failure in starting Actions runs and downloading actions. At this time the majority of Actions runs is impacted. |
| 11:19 | Investigating | Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 10:57 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pages |
| 13:21 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 1 hour 60 minutes. GitHub runs on Azure — check those status pages if you experienced cascading issues.
Resolution
GitHub has recovered and is now operational.
What To Do Next
- View GitHub live status and outage history
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