GitHub reported an incident affecting Actions, Pages, and Webhooks on October 30, 2026. The first update, posted at 17:50 UTC, said the company was investigating reports of degraded performance in Actions and Webhooks. At that point, GitHub had not identified a cause or described the extent of the disruption.
At 18:00 UTC, GitHub said Pages was also experiencing degraded performance and that its investigation was continuing. The report therefore covers reduced performance across three services: Actions, used to automate software workflows; Pages, used to host websites; and Webhooks, which deliver event notifications to integrations. It provides no details about specific failures, affected users or regions, the underlying technical issue, or an estimated recovery time. The status updates show that the reported impact expanded from Actions and Webhooks to include Pages within ten minutes. No resolution or mitigation was included in the available report, so it records an active investigation rather than a completed incident.
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