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Actions runs are experiencing failures to start

Jul 13, 2026, 01:32 PM → Jul 13, 2026, 01:53 PM · 21m

Affected components

ActionsPages

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  1. resolvedJul 13, 2026, 01:53 PM

    On July 13, 2026, between 13:11 and 13:53 UTC, some customers experienced failures starting and running GitHub Actions workflows, which also affected Copilot cloud agent sessions and GitHub Pages builds since they depend on Actions. During the peak of the incident, 30% of Actions jobs failed to start and 2% were delayed more than 5 minutes. <br /><br />The incident was triggered by a configuration change in an internal autoscaling component that contained outdated capacity threshold values. This

  2. monitoringJul 13, 2026, 01:39 PM

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

  3. investigatingJul 13, 2026, 01:32 PM

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

  4. investigatingJul 13, 2026, 01:32 PM

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions