# GitHub: Incident with Git Operations and Actions

> GitHub status incident “Incident with Git Operations and Actions” on 2023-09-05: impact minor (vendor’s label), 7.3 h, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/frdfpnnt85s8
Last updated: 2023-09-05T14:19:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2023-09-05 06:59 UTC · Resolved: 2023-09-05 14:19 UTC · Duration: 7.3 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/frdfpnnt85s8](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/frdfpnnt85s8)
- [Company: GitHub](https://rewindex.com/company/github.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2023-09-05 14:19 UTC: Between 06:59 UTC to 13:18 UTC GitHub customers experienced intermittent increased latency when using our git archive and raw file downloading capability. This capability is typically used for larger CI/CD systems and bulk download of repository data. This also caused intermittent periods of Actions workflow failures. During this incident we saw bursts of increased unique traffic on specific endpoints that overloaded our caching capability for this system. In addition, the traffic caused saturation of the service that exposed a bug in downloading archived files at high load which caused some archives to be downloaded with incomplete data. This caused intermittent failure of workflows for GitHub Actions, which primarily downloads actions data via these endpoints. We mitigated this through improvements to our rate limiting and changes to get to a healthy state across our backend service and cache . We initially relied on automated communication messages during this incident and will be working to ensure future incidents have more relevant status updates with specific customer impact.

_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, started 2023-09-05 06:59 UTC, resolved after 7.3 h, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/frdfpnnt85s8
- Citation: GitHub, “Incident with Git Operations and Actions” (2023-09-05 06:59 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/frdfpnnt85s8 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub: Incident with Git Operations and Actions (2023-09-05)](https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/frdfpnnt85s8)`


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