Scheduled GitHub Actions are now useless

Scheduled GitHub Actions<br>are now (in May 2026) so delayed that they are more or less useless. Here I<br>have two graphs I collected from my work GitHub account, one from a daily job<br>we have, and another from a job that runs hourly during office hours. Both<br>jobs run on our own runners.

The daily job is now runs more than 3½ hour late per day. And our<br>hourly job is so delayed that it only runs 30% of the times its<br>supposed to run!

The time between when a daily job is scheduled to run and when its actually<br>run, in minutes.

How many job runs of the hourly job that is skipped each day.

With this much delays the scheduling feature is now useless. What is happening<br>at GitHub?!

Victor 2026-05-19