Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death
Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits
GitHub's automation platform, Actions, and hosting service Pages are currently experiencing severe stability issues, as reported on the service's status site. The problems began on Thursday at 1522 UTC, with Actions suffering from degraded performance, and availability becoming compromised about 20 minutes later. GitHub stated that workflow runs were failing to initiate or were incomplete, and requests to the Actions REST API were returning errors. Users also encountered unexpected rate limits.
The root cause of the issue has not been officially disclosed, but it was acknowledged shortly after the problem was first reported. GitHub began applying mitigations and rolled out a fix across all affected systems shortly after 1740 UTC on Thursday. However, the problem has not yet been fully resolved, and Pages has now been added to the list of impacted systems.
The ongoing issues with GitHub's platform add to a history of stability problems. According to the status history page, the service has faced numerous incidents over recent months. In July alone, a single outage was reported, with 26 incidents logged. The months of June, May, and April saw 23, 23, and 26 incidents respectively. As of August 6, the status page lists six total incidents for the month, highlighting the recurring nature of the problems.
This latest GitHub outage has prompted many developers to reconsider using the platform for their projects, with some even calling it "unstable" for hosting "serious work." GitHub's apologies for the frequent outages have not seemed to improve the situation, leading to widespread frustration among the developer community.
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