Incident with Actions, we are investigating reports of degraded availability

At a glance · GitHub's status

ResolvedLasted 2 h 25 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 just now

In short

GitHub reported a partial outage affecting GitHub Enterprise Cloud US, starting 07:19 UTC on 6 May. GitHub marked it resolved at 09:44 UTC after 2 h 25 min. GitHub has since published a post-incident report.

GitHub says

GitHub's latest update, , in short excerpts.

On May 6, 2026, from approximately 06:45 UTC to 09:15 UTC, GitHub Actions Standard Ubuntu hosted runners were degraded.

GitHub,

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Timeline

Times in UTC, GitHub's own where it gives them.

  1. 6 May

    GitHubFirst public postFrom GitHub's own incident history, before our archive started.

  2. +2 h 25 min

    GitHubResolved

What GitHub changed

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  1. 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.

  1. Post-incident report ·

    On May 6, 2026, from approximately 06:45 UTC to 09:15 UTC, GitHub Actions Standard Ubuntu hosted runners were degraded.

  2. Resolved ·

    This incident has been resolved.

  3. Investigating ·

    Actions wait times have fully recovered.

  4. Investigating ·

    The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated.

  5. Investigating ·

    We've applied a mitigation to fix the issues with queuing and running Actions jobs.

  6. Investigating ·

    Actions is experiencing issues with ubuntu standard hosted runners leading to high wait times.

  7. Investigating ·

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

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