GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages are experiencing degraded availability following an incident that began on August 6, 2026, according to the platform’s status page.
The outage initially affected GitHub Actions, with engineers identifying that runners were being assigned jobs that were no longer valid. According to the status updates, GitHub deployed a fix to address this issue, and job completion rates have improved significantly. For workflow runs that are starting, success rates have increased to 97%, according to the most recent update. Both GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners are affected by the underlying issue.
However, webhook triggers remain throttled to support recovery efforts. The status page indicates that many push and pull request events are not yet triggering new workflow runs. Earlier updates noted that GitHub was processing approximately 15% of webhooks, though later updates show improvement as the company works to safely restore full throughput.
GitHub Pages, Copilot code review, and the Copilot coding agent may still experience failures or delays, according to the status page. Additionally, migrations using GitHub Enterprise Importer have been paused to support mitigation efforts.
The incident has required extended recovery time. Early updates indicated that capacity remained constrained, with jobs potentially delayed or failing, and self-hosted runner customers experiencing errors or rate limiting during registration. Standard and larger runners are now draining queued work, according to more recent updates.
Engineers have applied multiple mitigations and are continuing to monitor recovery. A change is in progress to address issues with existing self-hosted runners that are not picking up jobs. GitHub said it will provide additional updates as conditions improve.
Key facts
- Workflow job success rates for new runs have increased to 97%
- Webhook triggers remain throttled; GitHub is processing a limited percentage of webhooks
- Both GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners are affected
- GitHub Pages, Copilot code review, and the Copilot coding agent may still experience failures
- GitHub Enterprise Importer migrations have been paused