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.
# 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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