GitHub Actions outage on May 5 — 4h 2m disruption
May 5, 03:16 PM → May 5, 07:18 PM · 4h 2m · medium
On May 5, 2026, GitHub Actions experienced a service disruption, which was detected through user reports. The incident began at 15:16 UTC and was resolved at 19:18 UTC, lasting for 4 hours and 2 minutes.
Impact
Users experienced a medium-severity disruption to GitHub Actions, as indicated by 138 reports received during the incident. The most common issues reported by users included slow or unresponsive service, general service disruption, and API-related problems. A smaller number of reports also indicated security issues. No specific regional impact was identified or recorded during this event.
Top reported issues
- Slow / unresponsive98
- Service disruption29
- API issues9
- Security issue2
Incident timeline
- May 5, 03:16 PM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)
- May 5, 03:43 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 03:53 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 03:58 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 04:08 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 04:13 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 04:38 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 04:43 PM
Status updated: major issue
- May 5, 05:00 PM
Peak of 21 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.5)
- May 5, 07:18 PM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 5, 03:16 PM
GitHub Actions status page acknowledged the incident.
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