What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on July 29, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 36 minutes.
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Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 15:40 | Monitoring | The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. |
| 15:34 | Investigating | We are investigating an issue affecting GitHub Actions. Some customers may experience timeouts or failures with runner registration and workflow runs may be delayed during startup. Our team is acti... |
| 15:26 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions |
| 16:07 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 36 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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- Compare GitHub reliability with other services
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