Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death

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GitHub’s automation platform Actions and its hosting service Pages are failing, according to an incident page on the service’s status site (archived version available here). Unfortunately, these are just the latest stability problems for a service that has had a lot of them lately.

GitHub first reported the issue at 1522 UTC on Thursday, noting that Actions were suffering from “degraded performance” before noting about 20 minutes later that availability was also degraded. A few minutes after the availability notice, GitHub explained that workflow runs were failing to start, or failing partway through execution, and that requests to the Actions REST API were returning errors. The Microsoft subsidiary said users were also seeing unexpected rate limits.

An unnamed cause was mentioned as having been discovered in the same update, but that was...

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