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Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death
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A GitHub outage degraded Actions and Pages, with workflow runs failing and API requests erroring, marking the latest in a months-long pattern of instability on the platform.
Continuous delivery pipelines and hosted documentation built on GitHub Actions and Pages are unreliable right now, forcing teams to rerun jobs or find alternative hosting. The frequency of these incidents, over twenty per month since April, means engineers should evaluate whether GitHub remains viable for critical automation.
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Actions workflows failed to start or complete, the Actions REST API returned errors, and users hit unexpected rate limits during the outage.
Pages availability degraded, and Copilot code review, Copilot coding agent, hosted runners, GitHub Enterprise Importer migrations, and Webhook deliveries were also affected.
GitHub has logged over twenty incidents per month since April, and prior promises of structural improvements have not visibly reduced the failure rate.
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