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GitHub Actions & Pages Degraded Availability

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GitHub Actions and Pages are currently experiencing degraded availability, with workflow runs failing or being delayed. Some queued jobs may time out, and requests to the Actions API are returning errors. Customers utilizing GitHub Enterprise Importer for migrations may also encounter failures.

Engineers have been actively working on the issue, applying several mitigations and rolling out further fixes. While Pages experienced temporary degraded performance, it has since returned to normal operations. The source of the disruption for Actions has been identified, and efforts are focused on full recovery. Users may also observe unexpected rate limiting within their workflows.

This ongoing incident impacts both GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages. Updates were posted throughout August 6, 2026, with the initial investigation beginning around 15:22 UTC. The latest update indicates continued work on mitigations and recovery efforts.