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Delays starting Actions runs

Jul 9, 2026, 04:34 AM → Jul 9, 2026, 01:52 PM · 9h 17m

Affected components

ActionsPages

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  1. resolvedJul 9, 2026, 01:52 PM

    On July 9, 2026, between 03:29 UTC and 13:39 UTC, GitHub Actions experienced delayed and failed job starts on GitHub-hosted runners. The incident was caused by an unhealthy state in a backend data service responsible for provisioning hosted runners, preventing runner acquisition for a subset of workloads. During most of the incident, approximately 8% of workflow runs on hosted runners were delayed by more than 5 minutes, while roughly 2% failed to start.<br /><br />At 13:39 UTC, we restored the

  2. monitoringJul 9, 2026, 01:41 PM

    Actions, Pages builds, Copilot Cloud Agent, and Copilot Code review have all recovered and are mitigated.<br /><br />We are continuing to monitor to ensure full recovery, and investigating the health of the affected infrastructure.

  3. monitoringJul 9, 2026, 01:39 PM

    The degradation affecting Actions and Pages has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  4. investigatingJul 9, 2026, 01:17 PM

    We are continuing to monitor slow recovery in Actions and Pages builds as the system works through the high volume of backlog.<br /><br />Customers may see a small rate of  API and job failures as the system is recovering.<br /><br />Copilot Cloud Agent and Copilot Code Review also failed to start for approximately 30 minutes during this incident, and we are monitoring recovery.<br /><br />Pages were accessible throughout the incident.

  5. investigatingJul 9, 2026, 01:16 PM

    Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

  6. investigatingJul 9, 2026, 12:54 PM

    We're seeing Actions and Pages recovery. <br /><br />For a period of approximate 20 minutes ~96% of GitHub Actions runs on GitHub-hosted runners were failing to start, but has now recovered and we are seeing jobs processing.<br /><br />GitHub pages builds were also failing during that period, but Pages are still accessible.<br /><br />We are continuing to monitor for full recovery.

  7. investigatingJul 9, 2026, 12:46 PM

    Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

  8. investigatingJul 9, 2026, 12:36 PM

    Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.