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Actions and Codespaces APIs experiencing partial failures

Jul 7, 2026, 02:14 PM → Jul 7, 2026, 04:17 PM · 2h 2m

Affected components

ActionsCodespaces

Update timeline

  1. resolvedJul 7, 2026, 04:17 PM

    On July 7, 2026, between 14:01 UTC and 16:17 UTC the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs were degraded and returned intermittent 500-class errors for a percentage of requests. Error rates peaked at approximately 8% of Actions runner API requests and 13% of Codespaces API requests, though retries were frequently successful. In-progress Actions runs and Codespaces were not impacted and continued successfully. This was due to a recent change that did not deliver the expected performance and, under cer

  2. monitoringJul 7, 2026, 04:02 PM

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

  3. investigatingJul 7, 2026, 04:00 PM

    We have rolled out the mitigation and are seeing recovery.

  4. investigatingJul 7, 2026, 03:50 PM

    Customers will continue to see 500 errors for approximately 8% of Actions runner REST APIs and 13% of Codespaces REST APIs. Retries may be successful. We have identified a likely cause and are preparing a mitigation.

  5. investigatingJul 7, 2026, 03:06 PM

    Customers accessing Actions runners and Codespaces REST APIs continue to see 500 errors a percentage of the time. Retries may be successful.<br /><br />We continue to investigate the source of these errors.

  6. investigatingJul 7, 2026, 02:47 PM

    Customers accessing the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs may see 500 class errors a percentage of the time.  Retries may be successful.<br /><br />Actions runs and codespaces  in progress are continuing successfully.<br /><br />We are continuing to investigate the source of these errors.

  7. investigatingJul 7, 2026, 02:32 PM

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

  8. investigatingJul 7, 2026, 02:14 PM

    Customers accessing the Actions and Codespaces REST APIs may see 500 class errors a small percentage of the time.<br /><br />Actions runs in progress are continuing successfully.