What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on July 9, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 3 hours 46 minutes.
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Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 13:41 | Monitoring | Actions, Pages builds, Copilot Cloud Agent, and Copilot Code review have all recovered and are mitigated.<br /><br />We are continuing to monitor to ensure full recovery, and investigating the heal... |
| 13:39 | Monitoring | The degradation affecting Actions and Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 13:17 | Investigating | We are continuing to monitor slow recovery in Actions and Pages builds as the system works through the high volume of backlog.<br /><br />Customers may see a small rate of API and job failures as... |
| 13:16 | Investigating | Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 12:54 | Investigating | We're seeing Actions and Pages recovery. <br /><br />For a period of approximate 20 minutes ~96% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners were failing to start, but has now recovered and we ... |
| 12:46 | Investigating | Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 12:36 | Investigating | Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 12:01 | Investigating | Approximately 30% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners are experiencing run start delays exceeding 5 minutes. A smaller percentage of those are exhausting retries and failing to start.<b... |
| 10:15 | Investigating | Approximately 30% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners are experiencing run start delays exceeding 5 minutes. A smaller percentage of those are exhausting retries and failing to start. |
| 10:07 | Investigating | Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 06:01 | Investigating | We are continuing to work on a mitigation. |
| 04:51 | Investigating | Approximately 5% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners are experiencing run start delays exceeding 5 minutes. A small portion of these runs may fail after extended delays. We have identif... |
| 04:34 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions |
| 13:58 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 3 hours 46 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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