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GitHub Actions incident delayed or failed many hosted-runner jobs

githubstatus.com 3 min read Editor score 6/10

During the incident’s peak, 47% of hosted-runner workflows failed and 71.9% of jobs did not start within five minutes. These figures show the potential scale of CI disruption, though the excerpt gives no cause or remediation.

What

A partial network failure disrupted GitHub Actions and hosted runners on October 5, delaying or preventing many jobs from starting.

How

The failure affected connectivity between an on-premises datacenter region and some cloud database and storage services; GitHub shifted traffic to healthy regions and added capacity.

Why it matters

The incident highlights how network-path failures can disrupt CI at scale and the importance of resilience, detection and recovery.

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