GitHub Actions suffered an outage on Wednesday that disrupted its continuous integration and delivery platform, and the service was restored by 18:00 UTC. The incident began at 15:11 UTC and involved a database primary node that failed over to a replica, according to GitHub’s incident report. GitHub throttled inbound traffic while investigating upstream Vitess issues and gradually restored service, reporting normal operation by 18:00 UTC. The platform’s August uptime stood at 98.13 percent, approaching the 97 percent threshold, while GitHub claims to manage 2.9 billion commits, 24 million repositories, and 130 million merged pull requests each month. GitHub recorded 23 incidents in August so far, continuing a pattern of roughly 23 to 26 issues per month throughout 2024. A nearly eight‑hour outage on August 17 affected Issues, Pull Requests, APIs, Actions, and Copilot, prompting CTO Vladimir Fedorov to apologize and pledge to scale the platform to meet growing demand, a promise similar to one made in April. GitHub did not respond to inquiries for this story.