Incident with Actions
A record of the GitHub incident on October 5, 2026 (UTC): start time, duration and severity, plus current status, what to do, and alternatives.
Other providers down at the same time
2 other incident(s) at different providers overlapped with this one. It may not have been limited to a single service — several providers were degraded at once.
- OpenAIElevated Work Mode errors
- OpenAIElevated errors in ChatGPT conversations
Derived from our own archive of official status pages across 13 providers. Items lasting more than 24 hours and unresolved items are excluded, as they would misrepresent the moment.
How big was this outage?
This outage lasted 218 minutes. Across 54 major incidents recorded for GitHub, the median duration is 95 minutes, making this the 14th longest.
Longer than a typical outage.
Only incidents recorded as major-or-worse and already resolved are counted.
Current status
GitHub is operating normally now. This incident has been resolved.
See current GitHub status →What you can do during an outage
Source: GitHub's official status page.
Other GitHub incidents
- Disruption with some GitHub servicesOctober 5, 2026
- Actions Job DelaysOctober 1, 2026
- Elevated request latencyOctober 1, 2026
- [Retroactive] Actions workflow run failures after deployment gate approvalsOctober 1, 2026
- Copilot Code Review is unable to complete reviewsSeptember 28, 2026