GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability, with workflow runs failing or delayed and some API requests returning errors. GitHub engineers are investigating and applying mitigations.

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# Incident with Actions Source: [https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74) ## Update We are continuing to work on the issue affecting GitHub Actions\. Workflow runs are still failing or delayed in starting, and some queued jobs may time out\. Some requests to the Actions API are returning errors\. Customers running migrations with GitHub Enterprise Importer may see failures\. Our engineers have applied several mitigations and are rolling out a further fix now\. PostedAug06,2026\-17:02UTC ## Update Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability\. We are continuing to investigate\. PostedAug06,2026\-16:33UTC ## Update We are continuing to work on the issue affecting GitHub Actions\. Some workflow runs are still delayed or failing to complete, and some requests to the Actions API are returning errors\. Customers running migrations with GitHub Enterprise Importer may also see failures\. Engineers are actively working towards full recovery\. PostedAug06,2026\-16:27UTC ## Update Pages is experiencing degraded performance\. We are continuing to investigate\. PostedAug06,2026\-16:27UTC ## Update Pages is operating normally\. PostedAug06,2026\-16:19UTC ## Update Pages is experiencing degraded performance\. We are continuing to investigate\. PostedAug06,2026\-15:53UTC ## Update We are investigating errors affecting GitHub Actions\. Some workflow runs are failing to start or failing partway through, and some requests to the Actions REST API are returning errors\. Some customers may also see unexpected rate limiting in their workflows\. Engineers have identified the source of the disruption and are actively working on a mitigation PostedAug06,2026\-15:45UTC ## Update Actions is experiencing degraded availability\. We are continuing to investigate\. PostedAug06,2026\-15:41UTC ## Investigating We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions PostedAug06,2026\-15:22UTC This incident affects: Actions and Pages\.

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