# GitHub: Incident with Actions

> GitHub status incident “Incident with Actions” on 2025-10-21: impact minor (vendor’s label), 3.3 h, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/qqd6b1xb63tq
Last updated: 2025-10-21T12:28:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2025-10-21 09:12 UTC · Resolved: 2025-10-21 12:28 UTC · Duration: 3.3 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qqd6b1xb63tq](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qqd6b1xb63tq)
- [Company: GitHub](https://rewindex.com/company/github.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2025-10-21 12:28 UTC: On October 21, 2025, between 07:55 UTC and 12:20 UTC, GitHub Actions experienced degraded performance. During this time, 2.11% workflow runs failed to start within 5 minutes, with an average delay of 8.2 minutes. The root cause was increased latency on a node in one of our Redis clusters, triggered by resource contention after a patching event became stuck. Recovery began once the patching process was unstuck and normal connectivity to the Redis cluster was restored at 11:45 UTC, but it took until 12:20 UTC to clear the backlog of queued work. We are implementing safeguards to prevent this failure mode and enhancing our monitoring to detect and address problems like this more quickly 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, started 2025-10-21 09:12 UTC, resolved after 3.3 h, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/qqd6b1xb63tq
- Citation: GitHub, “Incident with Actions” (2025-10-21 09:12 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/qqd6b1xb63tq (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub: Incident with Actions (2025-10-21)](https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/qqd6b1xb63tq)`


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