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

> Incident silently edited: Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks. Detected 2026-10-22 by Rewindex: what changed on GitHub Copilot’s status page, with the before/after diff.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r3657eecf205291
Last updated: 2026-10-22T13:23:56Z

**Summary:** _summary pending_
- Kind: Silent edit · Label: Normal progress (typesafe/jev-1.13-20260917)
- Changed: 2026-10-22 13:23 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-22 13:23 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/nrv2k8s68bwn](https://stspg.io/nrv2k8s68bwn)
- [Company: GitHub Copilot](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot.md)
- Versions: before incident\_version:18/8tzbpcnl75jp@db3fd47e81b5 → after incident\_version:18/8tzbpcnl75jp@0bb327b8c6fe
- Change 5 of 5 for this incident

## Discussed on Hacker News

- [Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153934): 158 points, 132 comments, posted 2026-10-19 15:52 UTC, posted 3 min after the vendor’s first update

Incident page (full timeline): [Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/8tzbpcnl75jp.md)
## What changed

**1. Changed: Update** (resolved) · 2026-10-19 16:56 UTC

```diff
- 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.
+ 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 …
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-19 15:49 UTC | [Critical incident: Incident with Actions and Pages](https://rewindex.com/change/icc3000da7e0d4d.md) | degradation |
| 2026-10-19 16:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks](https://rewindex.com/change/rb9afde55404fd9.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-19 16:33 UTC | [Incident updated: Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks](https://rewindex.com/change/r449eee0d4d820b.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-19 17:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks](https://rewindex.com/change/r2334d99ede7c08.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-22 13:23 UTC | Incident silently edited: Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks (this change) | Normal progress |

Previous: [change](https://rewindex.com/change/r2334d99ede7c08.md) · All GitHub Copilot changes: [timeline](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/changes.md)
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## Cite this

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).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/change/r3657eecf205291
- Citation: GitHub Copilot, “Incident silently edited: Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks” (2026-10-22 13:23 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/change/r3657eecf205291 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub Copilot: Incident silently edited: Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks (2026-10-22)](https://rewindex.com/change/r3657eecf205291)`


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r3657eecf205291 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/change/r3657eecf205291.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/changes/r3657eecf205291 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-11-04T15:07:45.323Z