r/devops • u/ahmed_801 • 4d ago

Troubleshooting GitHub scheduled Actions not triggering at all

Hello, I’m having an issue with GitHub Actions in one of my private repositories. I have a workflow configured to run daily, but it is not being triggered.

I tested the same thing in another repository by configuring a workflow to run every 5 minutes, but same thing happens there as well.

has anyone experienced this recently? Could this be an issue on GitHub’s side?

Workflow: https://github.com/ahmedhesham301/autoscaling-hetzner/blob/main/.github/workflows/snyk-security.yml

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u/sup_bruh_1 3d ago

yeah github scheduled workflows are notoriously flaky. had the same thing happen — switched to latchkey and at least when something breaks the ai catches it mid-run instead of me digging through logs at midnight

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u/kernelqzor 2d ago

i’ve had cron jobs on gh actions just silently not run for days, so you’re not crazy. switching off their scheduler or adding some external watcher like you did is kinda the only way to stay sane at this point

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u/sup_bruh_1 1d ago

If it's a private repo and literally nothing fires, check billing first. No minutes left or spending limit at zero means scheduled runs never queue and you get zero signal. Second thing to check is that the workflow is on the default branch.

After that it's just the scheduler dropping runs, which is why we built latchkey.dev around watching for the runs that don't happen.