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.
Timeline
Times in UTC, GitHub's own where it gives them.
6 May
GitHubFirst public postFrom GitHub's own incident history, before our archive started.
+2 h 25 min
GitHubResolved
What GitHub changed
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One version so far. If GitHub edits it, each change shows here with what was removed and added.
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 May 6, 2026, from approximately 06:45 UTC to 09:15 UTC, GitHub Actions Standard Ubuntu hosted runners were degraded.
Resolved ·
This incident has been resolved.
Investigating ·
Actions wait times have fully recovered.
Investigating ·
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated.
Investigating ·
We've applied a mitigation to fix the issues with queuing and running Actions jobs.
Investigating ·
Actions is experiencing issues with ubuntu standard hosted runners leading to high wait times.
Investigating ·
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions
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