GitHub Outage History

GitHub Actions experienced degraded performance, with some workflows not running as expected. The issue affected the Actions component and disrupted CI/CD automation for about 1 hour and 15 minutes. The outage began at Jan 9, 2025 7:16 AM UTC and was resolved by Jan 9, 2025 8:31 AM UTC. The provider issued 2 status updates during the incident, including an initial investigation and later confirmation that Actions had returned to normal.

GitHub experienced an outage beginning at 1:41 AM UTC that affected Webhooks and caused degraded performance across several GitHub services. Affected components included Webhooks, Pages, Pull Requests, Git Operations, Codespaces, Copilot, API Requests, Issues, and Actions. Users reported sign-in errors, 500 server responses, and issues creating or updating pull requests and codespaces.

The incident prompted a series of updates from GitHub detailing ongoing investigation and recovery. The provider issued 7 status updates during the event. The outage began at 1:41 AM UTC and was resolved by 2:31 AM UTC, lasting about 50 minutes. Recovery progressed with Copilot and other components returning to normal across the timeline, and all listed services were back online by the final update.

GitHub experienced degraded performance across Actions, with Issues and Webhooks also showing degradation. Users saw slower automated workflows, delays in issue activity, and laggy webhook events. The incident began around Jan 7, 2025 2:49 PM UTC and persisted for approximately 1 hour and 52 minutes, until Jan 7, 2025 4:41 PM UTC. The impact covered three components: Actions, Issues, and Webhooks. The provider issued four official updates between Jan 7, 2025 2:51 PM UTC and Jan 7, 2025 4:41 PM UTC explaining ongoing investigations and progress, with all components restored by the end.

GitHub reported degraded performance affecting GitHub Actions and Pull Requests, leading to slower workflow runs and PR processing for a subset of users. The incident began with Actions degraded at Jan 2, 2025 10:11 PM UTC and, about 55 minutes later, Pull Requests degraded at 11:06 PM UTC. The issue persisted for roughly 2 hours and 10 minutes before both components returned to normal by Jan 3, 2025 12:21 AM UTC. During the incident, GitHub published three status updates detailing investigation and recovery, and the affected components were Actions and Pull Requests.