GitHub Outage: Workflows Failing, Copilot and Importer Hit

GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties

GitHub is battling a multi-service incident that began with degraded Actions performance and escalated to widespread failures. Workflow runs are failing or delayed, queued jobs may time out, and GitHub-hosted runners face capacity constraints. Self-hosted runner registration is erroring, and Copilot code review, Copilot coding agent, GitHub Enterprise Importer migrations, and webhook deliveries are all impacted. Engineers have applied mitigations and are rolling out fixes, but recovery is taking longer than expected.

Recovery is taking longer than we expected, and engineers remain actively engaged.

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2026-08-06