# GitHub outage on 5 October 2026

> On 5 October, GitHub had a critical outage affecting Actions and GitHub-hosted runners, with jobs delayed or failing to start, from 19:13 to 22:50 UTC (3 h 38 min). The status page's final update said impact began at 18:48 and that Actions recovered by 21:54. It also reported intermittent errors in repository lists, licensing and billing pages, Copilot features and Pages until 22:49, and said the cause was a partial networking failure between datacenter and cloud services. Zapier, BigCommerce, Intercom and Gusto also reported problems during the same period.

- Service: [GitHub](https://stackpulse.app/services/github.md)
- Severity: critical
- Title on the status page: Incident with Actions
- Started: 2026-10-05 19:13 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-05 22:50 UTC
- Lasted: 3 h 38 min
- Incident open on the status page: 19:11–22:49 UTC
- The status page's incident: https://stspg.io/c11dc9nb1zdq
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/github/outages/2026-10-05-1913

## What broke when (UTC)

| Component | Status | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actions | degraded performance | 2026-10-05 19:11 | 2026-10-05 20:47 |
| Actions | major outage | 2026-10-05 20:47 | 2026-10-05 21:31 |
| Actions | degraded performance | 2026-10-05 21:31 | 2026-10-05 21:54 |
| Pages | degraded performance | 2026-10-05 21:22 | 2026-10-05 22:40 |

## At the same time

- [Zapier](https://stackpulse.app/services/zapier.md): major_outage from 2026-10-05 18:55 UTC
- [BigCommerce](https://stackpulse.app/services/bigcommerce.md): major_outage from 2026-10-05 19:59 UTC
- [Intercom](https://stackpulse.app/services/intercom.md): issue from 2026-10-05 20:06 UTC
- [Gusto](https://stackpulse.app/services/gusto.md): issue from 2026-10-05 22:46 UTC

Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

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