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GitHub Copilot: Incident with Actions
GitHub Copilot · github.comImpact: criticalResolved2026-08-26 18:01 UTC
Public — what happened
Summary
On August 26, 2026 from 15:02 to 15:45 UTC, Actions jobs failed to start. The following 2 hours until 17:40 UTC, Actions runs were delayed starting by more than 5 minutes as the system caught up with delayed load. This impact was triggered by saturation of writes to the database primary used by the service processing triggers for Actions workflows. The primary was failed over, but the system did not fully recover. The saturation was caused by growing daily peak load combined with an upstream issue in GitHub’s event processing infrastructure, https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f, which caused burst amplification of already-high load. Downstream throttles that were later used to
Timeline
- Started — 2026-08-26 15:11 UTC
- Last update — 2026-08-26 18:01 UTC
- Resolved — 2026-08-26 18:01 UTC
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