GitHub Outage History

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.