# GitHub: Incident with Actions

- Provider: [GitHub](https://outages.cc/github.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: Resolved
- Worst impact: Major outage
- Started: 2026-08-26 15:11 UTC
- Resolved: 2026-08-26 18:01 UTC (lasted 2 h 50 min)
- Components: Actions, Pages
- Official update: https://stspg.io/pg14nv9m3095

## Updates from GitHub

### resolved, 2026-08-26 18:01 UTC

On August 26, 2026 from 15:02 to 15:45 UTC, Actions jobs failed to start. The following 2 hours until 17:40 UTC, Actions runs were delayed starting by more than 5 minutes as the system caught up with delayed load. This impact was triggered by saturation of writes to the database primary used by the service processing triggers for Actions workflows. The primary was failed over, but the system did not fully recover. The saturation was caused by growing daily peak load combined with an upstream issue in GitHub’s event processing infrastructure, https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f, which caused burst amplification of already-high load. Downstream throttles that were later used to recover were set ~10% too high to protect the system. At 15:45 UTC, throttling combined with service restarts recovered the service’s core health. Those throttles were gradually raised between 15:54 and 17:22 to restore full webhook processing for Actions runs. This ramp was deliberately slow to en

### monitoring, 2026-08-26 18:00 UTC

All inbound queues have recovered and Actions is operating as expected. 3.7% of jobs assigned to larger runners during the early stage of this incident are stuck waiting for runner assignment. Those will be canceled within the hour. Other runners are successfully processing all new jobs.

### monitoring, 2026-08-26 17:54 UTC

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

### investigating, 2026-08-26 17:32 UTC

We are continuing to observe recovery and expect actions inbound queues to be back to normal in <30min. Work will continue to flow through the system subject to per-customer concurrency limits.

### investigating, 2026-08-26 16:50 UTC

We are continuing to observe recovery and delayed queues are burning down. Some customers will continue to see increased delays until all throttled work has been completed - we expect this within the next hour.

### investigating, 2026-08-26 16:49 UTC

Pages is operating normally.

### investigating, 2026-08-26 16:14 UTC

We believe we've identified and addressed the issue and are ramping traffic back up slowly to ensure it doesn't recur. Some customers will continue to see delays as we ramp up.

### investigating, 2026-08-26 15:48 UTC

primary failover briefly improved performance but did not fully mitigate, we've throttled inbound traffic and are investigating upstream Vitess issues

### investigating, 2026-08-26 15:23 UTC

We've identified an issue with a database primary and are failing over to a replica immediately

### investigating, 2026-08-26 15:12 UTC

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

### investigating, 2026-08-26 15:11 UTC

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions