Incident with Actions
At a glance · GitHub's status
ResolvedLasted 5 h 15 min
- First posted
- on GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status
- Ended
- · marked resolved
- Affects
- GitHub Enterprise Cloud US
- Edited
- Not since we first saw it
- Source
- GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status · checked 1 min ago
In short
GitHub reported a partial outage affecting GitHub Enterprise Cloud US, starting 06:36 UTC on 18 Aug. GitHub marked it resolved at 11:51 UTC after 5 h 15 min. GitHub has since published a post-incident report.
GitHub says
GitHub's latest update, , in short excerpts.
On August 18, 2026, between 05:02 UTC and 11:30 UTC, customers were unable to run jobs on Actions Larger Runners and were unable to view…
Timeline
Times in UTC, GitHub's own where it gives them.
18 Aug
GitHubFirst public postFrom GitHub's own incident history, before our archive started.
+5 h 16 min
GitHubResolved
What GitHub changed
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First version we captured ·
As first seen: postmortem · 1 service
- Status
- postmortem
- Services
- GitHub Enterprise Cloud US
Seen by us · GitHub's timestamp · GitHub's page
Affected services
Official updates
Posted by GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status, newest first. The newest are quoted in their first sentence; the full text of each is on GitHub's page.
Post-incident report ·
On August 18, 2026, between 05:02 UTC and 11:30 UTC, customers were unable to run jobs on Actions Larger Runners and were unable to view…
Resolved ·
This incident has been resolved.
Investigating ·
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated.
Investigating ·
We have applied a mitigation and are seeing recovery signals in the target region.
Investigating ·
We have identified the source of a communication issue between Actions services and are working toward mitigation.
Investigating ·
The team continues to investigate issues related to Larger Runners, with some Actions jobs being queued for a long time and a percentage of jobs…
Investigating ·
The team continues to investigate issues with some Actions jobs being queued for a long time and a percentage of jobs failing.
Show 2 earlier updates
Investigating ·
Investigating ·
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