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GitHub Actions down again today

https://www.githubstatus.com/?today
88•cebert•40m ago

Comments

cebert•14m ago
I think we should start betting if GitHub will be down on Polymarkets or something at this point.
fidotron•11m ago
The future of SRE will be the company putting some amount of money on a prediction market against the site going down and you get to take home the winnings as long as the site stays up.
cpfohl•14m ago
Wasn’t my fault this time! I haven’t started work yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237377

Waterluvian•13m ago
Yeah but you thought about it, didn’t you?
nivekney•13m ago
This is outrageous. Someone go create a Polymarket.
bouk•13m ago
Insane, we have to come up with contingency plans now for long-duration GitHub outages because we can't safely do deployments. For a service we're paying thousands of $ per year for even though we host runners ourselves...
sebmellen•12m ago
Same here. You’d think they could at least separate out the GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners, so you’re still able to dispatch jobs if the self-hosted runners are down.
ketzu•6m ago
If the job queue is down, that wouldn't help, would it?

On my repo the jobs do not get scheduled on the PRs at all, so I assume that separation wouldn't help for todays issue.

sofixa•8m ago
Depending on how many thousands of $ per year, it would probably be cheaper and more reliable to self-host GitLab. It's better in terms of organisational structure (you can have one, including access and secret inheritance), and (personal view) Gitlab-CI is better than GitHub Actions because it doesn't push you towards a JavaScript/NPM style dependency hell. And it's actually fairly easy to self-hosted, with options from a single machine with an omnibus package that handles everything to a full blown autoscaling Kubernetes deployment.
decodebytes•8m ago
Same thoughts - we use an action to ship to production, its builds an image, pushes it to ECS which triggers a deployment.

We can't be blocked here. Seems silly what we settled on this, but for a long time GitHub had been reliable enough for many years, but things are sliding down the pan as of late.

dnnddidiej•4m ago
It is a control pain
mohsen1•13m ago
oh man spent so much time trying to debug what's going on. I have a complex setup with GitHub Actions and self hosted runners so I thought it's something broken in my CI setup
heeton•11m ago
Ugh, same. 30 mins with 2 devs trying to figure it out before they posted an update.
altern8•12m ago
Why do they go down so often? Is it true that the reason is that they've incorporated too much AI without human review?
insanitybit•9m ago
It's (a) they're under massively increased load because everyone's vibing up new projects these days, (b) they've been in a weird frankenstein "on azure but also we have our own control plane" state for years and they're pushing to no longer have that be the case.

I don't think vibecoding at Github has much to do with it.

altern8•8m ago
Ah, yes. A lot more repos, commits, and most importantly huge PRs.

That makes sense. Thank you!

cebert•7m ago
GitHub had a blog post about this recently. They reported a significant uptick in volume (repos created, PRs, etc.), which they attribute to AI usage and tooling.
gilrain•4m ago
Do you really believe their competition hasn’t seen the same increase? Because their competition certainly hasn’t seen the same instability issues.
cautiouscat•5m ago
Microsoft has boasted 30% of their code written by AI.[1] However we could only guess if AI generated code is the issue or something else, or a combination of things.

That being said there was a noticeable trend starting around 2022.[2] That being said they’ve also been doing a big migration to Azure. It’s likely a combination of things.

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-a...

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s/LOMPaSv3wY

a10c•11m ago
My action failed with "Unexpected error fetching GitHub release for tag refs/heads/master: HttpError: Sorry. Your account was suspended"

Which certainly made me shit myself, briefly.

grim_io•4m ago
A brownout redefined.
rvz•11m ago
Another outage at GitHub with actions and pages not working thanks to the AI agents Copilot and Tay.ai creating more issues. Last time this happened was 6 days ago. [0]

This time today it was caused by friendly fire by the automatic suspension of the GitHub Actions bot which is now a "Ghost" user. Since there is no CEO of GitHub to contact it we are just going to see more [1] of this again.

You might need to push a critical change soon, but now you cannot. You won't get any of these issues if you self hosted as I said 6 years ago...[2]

[0] https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/g6ffrm0rfvz9

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085501

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

throwatdem12311•11m ago
When is it up?
baalimago•10m ago
At least Copilot AI Model Providers are 100% uptime, so there's that
sh-cho•10m ago
'Degraded' should be banned in status pages. It sounds just irresponsible, like "Yeah, it can be slow or something sometime. Whatever. Who cares"
kminehart•8m ago
Are there any GitHub Actions-compatible CI services out there that don't rely on their infrastructure? I know of depot's but no others; are these resilient to these outages or do they still lose functionality? I imagine the latter but I don't know.
conroydave•3m ago
github actions themselves can be self hosted, its quite nice actually to be able to keep your same patterns as cloud hosted actions and with one line change to the yaml have it running on your own hardware. I do this for actions that take 6-7 hours so I am not burning through the 3000 minutes that come free with my account.
efromvt•7m ago
Incredible how reliable the heuristic of "something seems off - probably github being down" has gotten these days
sylware•7m ago
microsoft github should work at restoring interop with noscript/basic HTML browsers...
couAUIA•3m ago
LoL they added "Copilot AI Model Providers" in githubstatus and it has 100% up time.

Thanks for pointing out that nobody is using that thing

chocrates•3m ago
Someone said GitHub is racing to the mythical "zero nines of availability" and I love it
pistoriusp•3m ago
Whilst you're waiting for it to come back again, try out AGENT-CI.

It runs GitHub Actions on your machine: https://agent-ci.dev. (Open source, etc.)

No, it's not like "act," because it uses the standard Github runner, the difference is that the control plane is an emulation of api.github.com, because of this we can do all kinds of nice things:

Caching in ~0 ms. Pause on failure, so you can let your AI agent fix it and retry without pushing.

Waiting [pdf]

https://github.com/accomodating-fellow/Greek-Mystery-School/blob/main/On%20Waiting%20by%20Harold%...
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