# GitHub Copilot: Run start delays in Actions

> GitHub Copilot status incident “Run start delays in Actions” on 2026-01-20: impact minor (vendor’s label), 21 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/fw294tth5m8y
Last updated: 2026-01-20T20:10:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-01-20 19:49 UTC · Resolved: 2026-01-20 20:10 UTC · Duration: 21 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/fw294tth5m8y](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/fw294tth5m8y)
- [Company: GitHub Copilot](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2026-01-20 20:10 UTC: On January 20, 2026, between 19:08 UTC and 20:18 UTC, manually dispatched GitHub Actions workflows saw delayed job starts. GitHub products built on Actions such as Dependabot, Pages builds, and Copilot coding agent experienced similar delays. All jobs successfully completed despite the delays. At peak impact, approximately 23% of workflow runs were affected, with an average delay of 11 minutes. This was caused by a load pattern shift in Actions scheduled jobs that saturated a shared backend resource. We mitigated the incident by temporarily throttling traffic and scaling up resources to account for the change in load pattern. To prevent recurrence, we have scaled resources appropriately and implemented optimizations to prevent this load pattern in the future.

_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 2026-01-20 19:49 UTC, resolved after 21 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/fw294tth5m8y
- Citation: GitHub Copilot, “Run start delays in Actions” (2026-01-20 19:49 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/fw294tth5m8y (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub Copilot: Run start delays in Actions (2026-01-20)](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/fw294tth5m8y)`


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