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GitHub Copilot: Incident silently edited: Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks

Silent editNormal progress (typesafe/jev-1.13-20260917, 93%)Changed stspg.io (opens in new tab)
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Before: 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.
After: On October 19, 2026, between 15:24 and 16:52 UTC, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, and webhooks generated by Actions were degraded. Live updates on GitHub.com and code search were also degraded for part of this time. No data was lost. Impact - Workflow status updates, logs, and checks were delayed. - 5.13% of jobs on GitHub-hosted runners were delayed in starting, and 0.02% of workflow runs failed. - During the first 30 minutes, 8.47% of requests to the Actions jobs REST API returned errors. Pages deployments and webhooks generated by Actions runs were delayed. An internal Actions service that stores logs and run status lost connections to some of its cache servers in one cloud region and immediately retried them from every server at once. The resulting surge of new connections overloaded a shared network link between our data center and that region, which also disrupted other services that use the same link. We mitigated the incident by moving the Actions service off the affected cache servers and reducing connections from other services on the link. We then processed the delayed Actions work. We are continuing to investigate the cause of the initial connection timeouts. We were alre …

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Thursday, October 22

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Incident silently edited: Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks on GitHub Copilot’s status page, changed 2026-10-22 13:23 UTC (change 5 of 5).

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Incident silently edited: Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks
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GitHub Copilot
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