July 18th, 2024

GitHub Actions Outage

GitHub is facing issues with actions and jobs, working to resolve by failing over to another region. Users can subscribe for updates via email, text, Slack, or webhook notifications for ongoing incident information.

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GitHub Actions Outage

The GitHub platform is currently experiencing issues related to enabling actions and running jobs. Updates indicate that efforts are being made to mitigate an outage by failing over to a different region. Specific incidents include degraded performance on Pages and potential delays or failures in customer actions. Investigations are ongoing to address these issues affecting Actions and Pages. Users can subscribe to incident updates via email, text message, Slack, or webhook notifications. By subscribing, users agree to GitHub's Privacy Policy and other relevant terms. The platform provides various communication channels for users to stay informed about ongoing incidents and maintenance status. Additionally, users can follow @githubstatus on social media or visit GitHub's support site for further assistance.

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By @jzebedee - 3 months
All of Azure Central US is having issues. [1]

[1] https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status

By @p1necone - 3 months
Azure DevOps is totally down too, to the extent that I can't even git push to a remote hosted there (get a 503 response).

Something very critical has fallen over.

Edit: I don't think this is for everyone though - maybe only if your ADO instance happens to be hosted in US Central?

By @behnamoh - 3 months
Instead of saying means things about GA, can anyone chip in about ways they've made their work more resilient and fault tolerant in case such incidents happen?
By @aabhay - 3 months
Are self hosted runners down as well?
By @willsr - 3 months
Issues with VSCode Marketplace as well.
By @orliesaurus - 3 months
Ouch, there goes our build pipeline
By @jesseduffield - 3 months
Still down for me