# GitHub outage on 9 November 2026

> 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.

- Service: [GitHub](https://stackpulse.app/services/github.md)
- Severity: critical
- Title on the status page: Incident with Actions and Checks API
- Started: 2026-11-09 18:13 UTC
- Ended: 2026-11-09 19:04 UTC
- Lasted: 51 min
- Incident open on the status page: 18:12–18:59 UTC
- The status page's incident: https://stspg.io/7yw63xl9ztrv
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/github/outages/2026-11-09-1813

## What broke when (UTC)

| Component | Status | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actions | partial outage | 2026-11-09 18:12 | 2026-11-09 18:14 |
| Actions | major outage | 2026-11-09 18:14 | 2026-11-09 18:43 |
| Webhooks | degraded performance | 2026-11-09 18:23 | 2026-11-09 18:43 |
| Pages | degraded performance | 2026-11-09 18:30 | 2026-11-09 18:43 |

## At the same time

- [Kickstarter](https://stackpulse.app/services/kickstarter.md): critical from 2026-11-09 17:17 UTC
- [Musixmatch](https://stackpulse.app/services/musixmatch.md): issue from 2026-11-09 17:50 UTC
- [Blackbaud](https://stackpulse.app/services/blackbaud.md): major_outage from 2026-11-09 18:03 UTC
- [OpenAI](https://stackpulse.app/services/openai.md): issue from 2026-11-09 18:17 UTC
- [Studocu](https://stackpulse.app/services/studocu.md): major_outage from 2026-11-09 18:27 UTC
- [GoDaddy](https://stackpulse.app/services/godaddy.md): major_outage from 2026-11-09 18:38 UTC

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

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