GitHub Status · History · Incident #6724

ACTIVE INCIDENT

Incident with Actions

Critical · Started Aug 26, 2026 · 3:11 PM

  • Duration

    Ongoing

  • Severity

    Critical

  • Detection lead

  • User reports

Summary

Incident with Actions

We are continuing to observe recovery and delayed queues are burning down. Some customers will continue to see increased delays until all throttled work has been completed - we expect this within the next hour.


  • Started

    Aug 26, 2026 · 3:11 PM

  • Status

    Investigating

  • Duration

    Ongoing

  • Severity

    Critical

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

  • Investigating

    Aug 26 · 3:11 PM GitHub

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions

  • Investigating

    Aug 26 · 3:12 PM GitHub

    Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  • Investigating

    Aug 26 · 3:23 PM GitHub

    We've identified an issue with a database primary and are failing over to a replica immediately

  • Investigating

    Aug 26 · 3:48 PM GitHub

    primary failover briefly improved performance but did not fully mitigate, we've throttled inbound traffic and are investigating upstream Vitess issues

  • Investigating

    Aug 26 · 4:14 PM GitHub

    We believe we've identified and addressed the issue and are ramping traffic back up slowly to ensure it doesn't recur. Some customers will continue to see delays as we ramp up.

  • Investigating

    Aug 26 · 4:49 PM GitHub

    Pages is operating normally.

  • Investigating

    Aug 26 · 4:50 PM GitHub

    We are continuing to observe recovery and delayed queues are burning down. Some customers will continue to see increased delays until all throttled work has been completed - we expect this within the next hour.

Get alerted before the next GitHub outage.

Pulsetic catches degradations minutes before vendors acknowledge them.