GitHub Actions Experiencing Workflow Run Failures and Delays

GitHub is investigating a critical infrastructure issue affecting its Actions service.

By The Downtime · Jul 25, 2026 · 12:45 PM ·Updated 4 weeks ago

GitHub is investigating degraded availability for GitHub Actions, which is causing workflow run failures and delays for some users. The company's engineering team is actively working to restore full functionality.

GitHub is a widely-used platform where developers host code repositories and collaborate on software projects. Millions of organizations rely on GitHub Actions, an automation service that runs continuous integration and deployment workflows.

The company first reported investigating the issue and subsequently confirmed that some users are experiencing workflow run failures and delays. GitHub has not provided an estimated time to resolution.

This is a developing story. The Downtime will provide updates as more information becomes available.

🕒 Live updates (6)

resolved Jul 25, 1:13 PM

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

monitoring Jul 25, 1:12 PM

We have seen recovery in GitHub Actions performance following our earlier mitigation. Workflow runs are processing normally, though jobs queued before 12:40 UTC may still experience failures and will need to be retried.

monitoring Jul 25, 12:59 PM

The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

investigating Jul 25, 12:58 PM

We have applied a mitigation for the infrastructure issue affecting GitHub Actions. Workflow run failures and delays are improving but not yet fully resolved. Our engineering team continues to work on restoring full functionality across all affected infrastructure.

investigating Jul 25, 12:34 PM

We are experiencing issues with GitHub Actions that are causing workflow run failures and delays for some users. Our engineering team is actively investigating the infrastructure issue and working to restore full functionality.

investigating Jul 25, 12:31 PM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

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