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Overview
GitHub Actions experienced degradation on August 14, 2025, from 02:30 UTC to 06:14 UTC, resulting in an average of 3% of workflow runs being delayed by at least 5 minutes. The incident was caused by an outage in a downstream dependency, which led to backend service connectivity failures in one region. Resolution involved evacuating services from the impacted region.Impact
GitHub Actions was degraded, with an average of 3% of workflow runs delayed by at least 5 minutes.Trigger
An outage in a downstream dependency triggered the incident, leading to failures in backend service connectivity in one region.Detection
Awareness was gained through reports of issues with GitHub Actions, prompting an investigation into degraded performance.Resolution
The incident was resolved by evacuating a majority of services in the impacted region starting at 03:59 UTC, with all services fully evacuated by 06:14 UTC.Root Cause
The root cause was an outage in a downstream dependency that resulted in backend service connectivity failures in one region.
