What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on July 20, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 4 hours 45 minutes.
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Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 03:34 | Monitoring | The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 03:27 | Investigating | We’re seeing recovery across all impacted Actions runners. The team is continuing to monitor for global recovery. |
| 03:03 | Investigating | API Requests is operating normally. |
| 02:43 | Investigating | Issues, API Requests, and Pages have recovered. We are continuing to work on restoring GitHub Actions jobs using self-hosted or larger-hosted runners. |
| 02:23 | Investigating | API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 02:20 | Investigating | Issues is operating normally. |
| 01:37 | Investigating | Pages is operating normally. |
| 01:11 | Investigating | We continue to work on mitigative efforts to restore Actions workflow runners, and have observed that the extended downtime has started to cause knock-on effects to other services.<br /><br />A sep... |
| 00:52 | Investigating | Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 00:49 | Investigating | Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 00:48 | Investigating | Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 00:20 | Investigating | Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 00:07 | Investigating | API Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. |
| 23:57 | Investigating | We have identified the cause of failures in GitHub Actions and are working to restore service. |
| 23:37 | Investigating | We are investigating degraded availability for GitHub Actions on github.com and in GHEC DR stamps. New workflows may delay or fail to start, and ongoing runs may fail. We will provide more informat... |
| 23:34 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions |
| 01:15 | Investigating | The Git LFS API issues have been identified as being related to a separate incident where Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We’re consolidating our investigation efforts under that i... |
| 00:26 | Monitoring | Some Git LFS operations, and loading files through the API are failing. We are investigating. |
| 00:25 | Monitoring | Some Git LFS operations, and loading files through the API are failing. We are investigating. |
| 00:25 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. |
| 04:46 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 4 hours 45 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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