GitHub outage on 9 November 2026
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“Incident with Actions and Checks API”
On 9 November 2026, GitHub had a critical outage affecting Actions and the Checks API. It lasted 51 minutes, from 18:13 to 19:04 UTC. The status page reported degraded Webhooks from 18:23 and degraded Pages from 18:30, and said the problems with Actions, Pages and Webhooks were mitigated at 18:43, before the incident was marked resolved at 18:59. Kickstarter, Musixmatch, Blackbaud, OpenAI, Studocu and GoDaddy also reported problems at the same time, and GitHub had one other outage in the three days before.
GitHub’s own incident page ↗- When
- 18:13–19:04 UTC
- How long
- 51 min
- Incident open on its page
- 18:12–18:59 UTC
- Components affected
- 3
- GitHub, 30 days before
- 9 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 135 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
- Actions: major outage
- Webhooks: degraded performance
- Pages: degraded performance
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Actions: back to normal
- Webhooks: back to normal
- Pages: 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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