Incident with Actions
At a glance · GitHub's status
ResolvedLasted 3 h 7 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 14:19 UTC on 5 May. GitHub marked it resolved at 17:26 UTC after 3 h 7 min. GitHub has since published a post-incident report.
GitHub says
GitHub's latest update, , in short excerpts.
On May 5, 2026, from approximately 13:22 UTC to 17:05 UTC, GitHub Actions hosted runners in the East US region were degraded.
Timeline
Times in UTC, GitHub's own where it gives them.
5 May
GitHubFirst public postFrom GitHub's own incident history, before our archive started.
+3 h 7 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 May 5, 2026, from approximately 13:22 UTC to 17:05 UTC, GitHub Actions hosted runners in the East US region were degraded.
Resolved ·
This incident has been resolved.
Investigating ·
Standard hosted runners have now reached full recovery.
Investigating ·
We've seen signs of recovery for Standard Hosted Runners and are continuing to monitor for full recovery.
Investigating ·
We've applied a mitigation for long queue times and failures on Standard Hosted Runners and are monitoring for full recovery.
Investigating ·
We are working with our compute provider to alleviate elevated queue times and failures for Actions Jobs running on Hosted Runners in the East US…
Investigating ·
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions
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