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.
- alamsterdam
- iamsaitam
Aren't we all..
- chiply
Unreal. Even self-hosted runners are impacted.... How can that be? The cost of this globally has got to be in the hundreds of millions to companies that use CI/CD through GitHub Actions. What if prod is broken and GitHub actions is stalling the deployment of your hotfix? What if this makes your organization miss and SLA and diminish user trust? What if this makes you miss a release that you were contractually obligated to meet? This is happening during peak dev hours on a Thursday (not that it would be acceptable at any other time).
I don't understand how a service this critical to the global technical infrastructure can fail like this at all, let alone for more than a few hours. Like where's the backup generator for crises like these? You can't even use self-hosted runners? WTF?