GitHub Copilot Major Outage - July 19, 2026

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

We are investigating degraded availability for GitHub Actions on github.com and in GHEC DR stamps. New workflows may delay or fail to start, and ongoing runs may fail. We will provide more information as soon as we can.

We have identified the cause of failures in GitHub Actions and are working to restore service.

API Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

We continue to work on mitigative efforts to restore Actions workflow runners, and have observed that the extended downtime has started to cause knock-on effects to other services.<br /><br />A separate incident was opened before we understood they were related. We will continue to post updates on this incident.

Pages is operating normally.

Issues is operating normally.

API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

Issues, API Requests, and Pages have recovered. We are continuing to work on restoring GitHub Actions jobs using self-hosted or larger-hosted runners.

API Requests is operating normally.

We’re seeing recovery across all impacted Actions runners. The team is continuing to monitor for global recovery.

The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

Actions has fully recovered, and we will continue to monitor the platform to ensure stability.

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.