GitHub Actions is down once again

[u/BitFlipp3r]

https://www.githubstatus.com/

If you're experiencing actions stuck in a queued state, it's not you:

Update - We’re are currently investigating degraded availability affecting GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks.

Customers may experience delays in workflow processing, site builds and webhook delivery.

Oct 19, 2026 - 15:56 UTC

Update - Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Oct 19, 2026 - 15:50 UTC

Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Pages
Oct 19, 2026 - 15:49 UTC

[u/AutomateAway]

lmao another day that ends in day. at a doctors appointment and fully expect for none of our CICD to be working when i return to work

[u/cowhand214 → u/AutomateAway]

Well at least you have an excuse for that high blood pressure reading

[u/AutomateAway → u/cowhand214]

allergy shots but maybe it’ll trigger a reaction lmao

[u/edmazing → u/AutomateAway]

Liquid github. You're very allergic.

[u/bmrobin]

i've used many ci tools, and GHA has so far been my favorite WHEN IT WORKS. the fact that i still experience interruptions when using self-hosted runners is frustrating as hell.

[u/BitFlipp3r → u/bmrobin]

the fact that this stalls self-hosted runners too is pretty insane

[u/auctus10 → u/bmrobin]

The whole concept and working eith is so cool but holy shit the performance is absymal.

[u/G12356789s → u/bmrobin]

My company is contemplating moving from gitlab to GitHub. I'm a big fan of the gitlab ci runners and how we self host them.

What is it you like about actions specifically?

[u/HiImDan → u/G12356789s]

Random mandatory breaks?

[u/riickdiickulous → u/G12356789s]

I moved companies from using GitLab to GitHub and would give anything to have GitLab back. GitHub is hot garbage.

[u/jl2352 → u/riickdiickulous]

I feel the exact opposite in regards to Gitlab. They are fixing it, but man it’s such a buggy platform.

Last week they had multiple incidents, and poor runner scheduling when it was up. Gitlab spent most of the week saying it failed to run our jobs.

In fairness I haven’t seen this recently, but over the last two years I’ve experienced multiple Gitlab bugs where the git diff changes on an MR are wrong. Sometimes it’s missing commits, and sometimes it repeats work. I also see bugs with selecting code for a comment not working, and sometimes it auto-refreshes and you lose your draft comment.

The UI on Gitlab is dreadful, and confusing.

After years of hearing lots of praise about Gitlab, I was surprised to try it and find how poor it is.

[u/Murky-Relation481 → u/jl2352]

I think people are talking about self hosted gitlab in this context.

[u/bmrobin → u/G12356789s]

i haven't used gitlab, so i can't speak to comparisons there. but the jenkins <-> github integration - while functional - felt like i had to do a whole bunch of extra work & steps to get what i can do either completely out of the box with GHA or with very very minimal yaml.

their yaml dsl is a lot easier to grok than jenkins' groovy dsl

[u/Framnk → u/G12356789s]

The only reason to move from Gitlab to GitHub is cost

[u/WeirdIndividualGuy → u/bmrobin]

A PSA that self-hosted GHA is not truly self-hosted. Otherwise GHA outages would not affect your own hosted CI

[u/SanJJ_1]

Lol why does it show all green for today the 19th lmao? Crazy how these incident boards are so fake lmao wtf

[u/spongeloaf → u/SanJJ_1]

Yeah the cute green bars don't seem to track every day that I push a commit and then the PR page hangs for five minutes.

[u/frankster]

gitlab seems to have been shitting the bed today as well!

[u/Patient-Emphasis-664]

When does GitHub Actions is up again become the default news item?

[u/ao_zame]

I'm glad I just migrated everything to a self-hosted Forgejo instance

[u/Zanion → u/ao_zame]

Yeah, their incompetence has speedran my efforts to just go fully self hosted

[u/_mattmc3_ → u/ao_zame]

We just did a similar migration, and couldn’t be happier. Forgjo actions are mostly compatible with GitHub Actions, but we did have to fork/rewrite a few of the helper actions repos GitHub provided. The only big thing we were missing is a proper Projects API. There’s a PR that’s been stalled for awhile. The strict anti-AI development governance is a bit heavy handed and seems to slow down some key features, but I’ll take that over GitHub’s mismanagement and outages. If what forgejo has matches what you use in GitHub, self hosting feels like a no-brainer at this point.

[u/Top3879 → u/ao_zame]

Same here. And while it's obviously not the game thing I can proudly say my Forgejo Actions have never been down once.

[u/Somepotato → u/ao_zame]

I've been weighing the pros and cons of having a self hosted forgejo instance for awhile now, with repos mirrored on azure devops/github for resiliency. How are you liking it so far? Their governance structure and hard rules have me concerned for the long term life of the project.

[u/afl_ext → u/Somepotato]

Im also considering this and so can you elaborate on what is worrying you?

[u/moh_kohn]

Cool thing where enterprise services now offer a whole 2 9s of reliability

[u/cellularcone]

AI first!

[u/b1ak3 → u/cellularcone]

The vibes were off today

[u/miversen33]

We're literally talking about setting up ci/cd around github actions and I have been advising them we need to self host because of this shit.

The company is so worried (rightfully so) about potential supply chain attacks that they are still ok paying for actions even with this shit.

It's wild man

[u/xnachtmahrx → u/miversen33]

It still impacts the selfhosted runners. That is the fun part.

[u/flightsin]

These days I can't even browse source code on GitHub without it shitting the bed. Can't imagine it's fun using it for actual work.

[u/targrimm]

38 minutes I waiting for a single action to run, which takes 7seconds.

[u/_souphanousinphone_]

Just use it as an excuse to take a break. Don’t turn down an unexpected gift.

[u/ClocktowerGnome]

GitHub actions don’t have a single 9 of reliability. They’re at 99.65%

[u/ImAStupidFace → u/ClocktowerGnome]

I'm all for clowning on GHA but I'm gonna need you to count the 9s in "99.65%" again

[u/UnexpectedAnanas → u/ImAStupidFace]

You're right to call me out on that. There are actually three 9s in "99.65%". I didn't look before the decimal like I should have. I'm making a note of this for my future reference. It won't happen again.

[u/marrsd → u/UnexpectedAnanas]

Must have 4 years experience orchestrating a dozen AI agents to produce 9% up time. Sounds about right for the enterprise.

[u/theFirstHaruspex]

guys don't worry, I vibe coded an open source alternative to github actions for a time such as this check it out here

[u/Personal_Rough6944]

roz ki kaahani

[u/ctrlHead]

Thats why I could not merge yesterday lol..

[u/ToaruBaka]

Water is wet.

[u/CherryLongjump1989]

No problems here with my self-hosted Forgejo.

[u/ankercrank]

I was wondering why my PRs were seemingly stuck.

[u/First_Inspection_478]

I’ve tried using tools like preloop(https://github.com/preloopdev/preloop), act, localci. Both have their warts but it actually doesnt work too bad. Preloop seems to have much better fidelity than the other two and can update your checks but is also abit heavier(needs the full github vm image iirc). Localci and act works great if your actions are supported.

[u/stipo42]

Just in time for the work week

[u/siddhant30]

github and its shenanigans, crazy that it happens on monday

[u/jinks26]

You can install a runner on your own device. We did this for building a unity app on a spare pc that stays on all the time.

[u/First_Inspection_478 → u/jinks26]

Self-hosted runners are also often affected since webhooks are down

[u/NotUniqueOrSpecial → u/jinks26]

That doesn't fix the problem when the problem is delivering work to workers.

[u/thelehmanlip]

Don't worry githubstatus.com says there was no downtime with actions today so it's probably fine. ^/s

[u/androbat]

When will GitHub switch to using AI agents for development so these outages stop happening?

(edit: I guess Poe’s law is in full effect here)

[u/grady_vuckovic → u/androbat]

Plot twist: The outages are caused by using AI agents for development!

[u/ironykarl → u/androbat]

I think they're getting ready to start in roughly four or five years ago.

If you're asking about an agent-first dev cycle, I think that's coming up the pike two years ago.

Good troll if that's what you were doing, though

[u/androbat → u/ironykarl]

It was a wry commentary on software quality and reliability going down the tubes since AI entered the equation.