GitHub outage on 4 November 2026
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“Incident with Actions”
On 4 November, GitHub Actions had a major outage from 17:40 to 18:07 UTC, and the incident was marked resolved at 18:16 after 36 minutes. The status page said it had identified an issue with events that might trigger Actions, and that users might see delayed job status updates. Auto Trader UK, Narvar, Sentry and Musixmatch also reported problems around the same time.
GitHub’s own incident page ↗- When
- 17:40–18:16 UTC
- How long
- 36 min
- Incident open on its page
- 17:40–18:16 UTC
- Components affected
- 1
- GitHub, 30 days before
- 12 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 132 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- Actions: partial outage
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Actions: 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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