Incident with Actions
Actions
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Last official update:
Resolved:
Published incident duration: 52 minutes.
Between 16:39 and 16:57 UTC on November 5, 2026, some customers experienced failures starting workflow runs in GitHub Actions and Checks, and some in-progress runs failed. At peak, about 3% of workflow runs failed to queue, and roughly 0.21% of in-progress runs failed. The cause was resource exhaustion in a database service that stores Actions Checks data. Bursts of highly concurrent, large read requests put the service under memory pressure, which caused it to stall and reject requests. We mitigated the incident by failing over the affected database host. To prevent a recurrence, we have increased memory capacity across the affected database fleet. We will also be limi
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What to do
Commit locally and push later; Actions jobs usually re-queue after recovery.
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Official update timeline
- · resolved
Between 16:39 and 16:57 UTC on November 5, 2026, some customers experienced failures starting workflow runs in GitHub Actions and Checks, and some in-progress runs failed. At peak, about 3% of workflow runs failed to queue, and roughly 0.21% of in-progress runs failed. The cause was resource exhaustion in a database service that stores Actions Checks data. Bursts of highly concurrent, large read requests put the service under memory pressure, which caused it to stall and reject requests. We mitigated the incident by failing over the affected database host. To prevent a recurrence, we have increased memory capacity across the affected database fleet. We will also be limi
- · monitoring
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- · investigating
Some GitHub Actions workflow runs may experience delays or errors when starting. We’re investigating and preparing a mitigation.
- · investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions