What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on July 7, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 2 hours 5 minutes.
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Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 16:02 | Monitoring | The degradation affecting Actions and Codespaces has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 16:00 | Investigating | We have rolled out the mitigation and are seeing recovery. |
| 15:50 | Investigating | Customers will continue to see 500 errors for approximately 8% of Actions runner REST APIs and 13% of Codespaces REST APIs. Retries may be successful. We have identified a likely cause and are prep... |
| 15:06 | Investigating | Customers accessing Actions runners and Codespaces REST APIs continue to see 500 errors a percentage of the time. Retries may be successful.<br /><br />We continue to investigate the source of thes... |
| 14:47 | Investigating | Customers accessing the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs may see 500 class errors a percentage of the time. Retries may be successful.<br /><br />Actions runs and codespaces in progress are con... |
| 14:32 | Investigating | Codespaces is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 14:14 | Investigating | Customers accessing the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs may see 500 class errors a small percentage of the time.<br /><br />Actions runs in progress are continuing successfully. |
| 14:14 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Codespaces |
| 16:21 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 2 hours 5 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
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