# GitHub Copilot: Incident with Actions

> GitHub Copilot status incident “Incident with Actions” on 2023-11-21: impact minor (vendor’s label), 1.3 h, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/x39xrr5m11b3
Last updated: 2023-11-21T11:27:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2023-11-21 10:11 UTC · Resolved: 2023-11-21 11:27 UTC · Duration: 1.3 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/x39xrr5m11b3](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/x39xrr5m11b3)
- [Company: GitHub Copilot](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2023-11-21 11:27 UTC: On November 21, 2023, at 09:50 UTC GitHub Actions jobs encountered delays due to an incident in our background job service caused by excessive rebalancing in a Kafka consumer group. After a quick mitigation, we began to see recovery on the job queues by 10:02 UTC. During this time window 100% of Actions jobs were delayed in starting for up to 11 minutes. Unfortunately, the rapid queue recovery sent a thundering herd of jobs to Actions hosted runner pools, causing a database deadlock that resulted in some hosted runner pools having increased latency when accepting new jobs. This affected only a small percentage of overall jobs, around 2%. Configuration changes led to a resolution and the system was fully recovered by 11:27 UTC and all in progress jobs were processed. The incident is now resolved.

_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 2023-11-21 10:11 UTC, resolved after 1.3 h, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/x39xrr5m11b3
- Citation: GitHub Copilot, “Incident with Actions” (2023-11-21 10:11 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/x39xrr5m11b3 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub Copilot: Incident with Actions (2023-11-21)](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/x39xrr5m11b3)`


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