GitHub Actions Experiences Outage, Some Workflows Failing
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
GitHub Actions is currently experiencing degraded availability, with some workflow runs failing to start or failing partway through. Requests to the Actions REST API are also returning errors, and some customers may see unexpected rate limiting. Engineers have identified the source of the disruption and are actively working on a mitigation. The incident also affects GitHub Pages.
Some workflow runs are failing to start or failing partway through, and some requests to the Actions REST API are returning errors.
- zehaeva
I don't think this portents anything great for software in general.
We're a good year+ into the use LLMs for all major bits of software that we all rely upon and GitHub here is down to one 9 of uptime. I've been using GitHub for a _long_ time, my first commits there go back to August 2009!, and I honestly don't recall GitHub going down as much as it has in the last year.
I'm sure there's other things happening in the background, but I can not help but believe that this is directly correlated with the increase of LLM usage.
Though I would love to hear someone else's pet theory how a rock of the internet went from four+ nines of uptime to maybe one.
- __initbrian__
All of the outages make sense to me as scaling issues. Each month, GitHub is getting the amount of commits they’d normally get in a year. And it’s growing
> Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.
So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features.
And as a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that.
x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878
- molsson
5 hours going now and the entire thing is still completely down. This level of incompetence and their total disrespect for their customers is unbelievable.
- m132
At this point maybe they should consider sending out announcements when it is working instead
- arandomhuman
I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.
- alamsterdam
It's been hours :(
I have sympathy for the on-call team trying to resolve it, most of us have been there done that.
But seems something is systematically going wrong at GH
- peterldowns
Can't wait for the Graphite/Cursor alternative (Origin) to become available. Actions being down for an hour in the middle of the US East workday is crazy. It's super frustrating to be an enterprise customer of Github, seems like we don't get any dedicated resources or additional stability. At this point our only option is self-host github enterprise or move away.
- opiniateddev
Given the recent history of outages, I wonder how many are seriously considering moving off GitHub for anything other than code hosting. I mean actions / workflows.
- blixt
It would seem like GitHub is in a precarious situation.
We have many agents per employee working in parallel pushing way more commits than was humanly possible before AI, triggering GitHub actions a lot more than the workflows were built for, causing Actions costs to escalate (they really aren't cheap if you compare to hosting it yourself), meanwhile working with YAML workflows is just a pain, and just writing code would be so much more fun and AI compatible[1].
At the same time, GitHub has about ~3 different PR review UIs? And they're all half-bad? Any decently sized PR triggers their "optimized for large PRs" UI which jumps around randomly in my experience. If you don't get that UI and keep the scrolling one (there's an old and a new one btw) then god forbid you click a line number because at some point your browser will randomly scroll back to that line and it won't unstick. Now Linear[2] (and others) is replacing the PR review experience for the agentic era.
I'd love to see a solid AI first Git + CI + reviews.
[1] Cloudflare CI https://blog.cloudflare.com/ci-workflows/
[2] Linear PR reviews https://linear.app/changelog/2025-01-23-pull-request-reviews
- cebert
It's cute that someone at GitHub had time to make their hamburger menu pancakes to promote stacked PRs, but nobody has time to make the platform stable.