GitHub outage on 19 October 2026
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“Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks”
On 19 October, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks had degraded availability from 15:50 to 16:58 UTC (1 h 8 min), during which workflow processing, Pages site builds and webhook delivery could be delayed. GitHub's status page listed all three as a minor issue from 15:49 to 16:56, reported recovery after mitigation at 16:30 with some delays continuing, and did not state a cause. Procore, Hostinger, Code.org and Cursor also reported problems at the same time.
GitHub’s own incident page ↗- When
- 15:50–16:58 UTC
- How long
- 1 h 8 min
- Incident open on its page
- 15:49–16:56 UTC
- Components affected
- 3
- GitHub, 30 days before
- 6 other outages
What broke when
From GitHub’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 173 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- Pages: degraded performance
- Actions: degraded performance
- Webhooks: degraded performance
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Pages: back to normal
- Actions: back to normal
- Webhooks: back to normal
- Resolved
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads GitHub’s official status page at www.githubstatus.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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