Actions Job Delays

resolved

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.

10/1/2026, 5:56:54 PM

investigating

GitHub Actions experienced degraded performance for some hosted runners due to throttling within an upstream Azure dependency. Service capacity has recovered, and we are continuing to monitor while working with Azure on the underlying condition.

10/1/2026, 5:50:54 PM

investigating

We are currently applying a mitigation and anticipate recovery within thirty minutes.

10/1/2026, 4:48:51 PM

investigating

We have identified an issue with our upstream provider which is causing Actions requests to 429 which is creating the delays. We have escalated to the owning team and are investigating how to mitigate the 429s.

10/1/2026, 4:10:24 PM

investigating

We are seeing a reoccurrence in run-start delays, and are continuing to investigate to issue. Customers will potentially experience delays of up to ten minutes.

10/1/2026, 3:29:46 PM

investigating

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

10/1/2026, 3:20:46 PM

monitoring

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

10/1/2026, 3:10:52 PM

investigating

Run-start delays on Ubuntu runners have been resolved. We are investigating run-start delays on Windows runners and will share more information as it becomes available.

10/1/2026, 3:02:41 PM

investigating

We have identified the cause of increased Actions run start delays on Ubuntu runners and are actively deploying a fix. Customers may continue to experience intermittent delays while the mitigation rolls out and service metrics return to normal.

10/1/2026, 2:54:13 PM

investigating

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

10/1/2026, 2:47:48 PM