# GitHub Copilot: Incident with Actions

> GitHub Copilot status incident “Incident with Actions” on 2024-03-11: impact minor (vendor’s label), 20 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/bgnqgwyj76l4
Last updated: 2024-03-11T19:22:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2024-03-11 19:02 UTC · Resolved: 2024-03-11 19:22 UTC · Duration: 20 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/bgnqgwyj76l4](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/bgnqgwyj76l4)
- [Company: GitHub Copilot](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2024-03-11 19:22 UTC: On March 11, 2024 between at 18:44 UTC and 19:10 UTC, GitHub Actions performance was degraded and some users experienced errors when trying to queue workflows. Approximately 3.7% of runs queued during this time were unable to start. The issue was partially caused by a deployment of an internal system Actions relies on to process workflow run events. The pausing of the queue processing during this deployment for about 3 minutes caused a spike in queued workflow runs. When this queue began to be processed, the high number of queued workflows overwhelmed a secret-initialization component of the workflow invocation system. The errors generated by this overwhelmed system ultimately delayed workflow invocation. Through our alerting system, we received initial indications of an issue at approximately 18:44 UTC. However, we did not initially see impact on our run start delays and run queuing availability metrics until approximately 18:52 UTC. As the large queue of workflow run events burned down, we saw recovery in our key customer impact measures by 19:11 UTC, but waited to declare the incident resolved at 19:22 UTC while verifying there was no further customer impact. We are working on various measures to reduce spikes in queue build up during deployments of our queueing system, and have scaled up the workers which handle secret generation and storage during the workflow invocation process.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub Copilot, started 2024-03-11 19:02 UTC, resolved after 20 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/bgnqgwyj76l4
- Citation: GitHub Copilot, “Incident with Actions” (2024-03-11 19:02 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/bgnqgwyj76l4 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub Copilot: Incident with Actions (2024-03-11)](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/bgnqgwyj76l4)`


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