GitHub Actions and Webhooks hit by degraded performance
GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks
GitHub is investigating reports of degraded performance affecting Actions and Webhooks, according to a status page update posted October 30, 2026 at 17:50 UTC. The incident notice names both services as impacted, though no cause or resolution timeline has been given yet. The status page also lists Pages in the incident title.
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Webhooks.
- peri-cl
The shape of this HN duplicate detector actually works as a GitHub uptime chart:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=githubstatus.com
It's driven by aggregated user complaints, so it's pretty high-quality. Comment counts are a proxy for "how bad was the outage" + "how long was the outage thread topical for".
edit to add: Here's a scatterplot of the same,
- pksunkara
I think all they have to do is stop giving free CI to everyone and this reliability issue will be solved immediately.
Disclaimer: I am building a code forge myself at https://juju.bi
- montroser
It bugs me how there can be an acknowledged live incident happening today with Actions, and yet down the page where it shows last 30d uptime for actions, today's little rectangle is a chipper green.
- senderista
Lesson for every infra provider: physically separate your free tier infra from your paid tier infra.
- huijzer
Ever since I switched to Forgejo (could do Gitea or other self-hosted too), my outages have gone down to basically zero. It’s only down when I do maintenance but since I’m not pushing code at the same time it doesn’t matter