GitHub returning 429s when downloading first party actions

Resolved

Degraded performance

Started about 1 year agoJuly 28, 2025Lasted about 10 hoursJuly 28, 20253:32 PMJuly 29, 20251:27 AMUTC

Affected

Github → Actions

Updates

Update
July 29, 2025 at 3:36 PMUTC
Update
July 29, 2025 at 3:36 PMUTC
This incident has been resolved.
Resolved
July 29, 2025 at 1:27 AMUTC
Resolved
July 29, 2025 at 1:27 AMUTC
This incident has been resolved by GitHub.
Identified
July 28, 2025 at 5:01 PMUTC
Identified
July 28, 2025 at 5:01 PMUTC
GitHub have declared an upstream incident, we will continue monitoring these failures we are seeing sporadically.
Investigating
July 28, 2025 at 3:32 PMUTC
Investigating
July 28, 2025 at 3:32 PMUTC
We are monitoring reports of GitHub returning 429s when downloading first party actions such as actions/setup-go etc. The error string being reported is of the form:
```
Error: Response status code does not indicate success: 429 (Too Many Requests). DC04:39E04E:636AE0:858F56:6887975E
```

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