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Chapter 9: GitHub Actions Hands-On

9.7c Reading a failed Actions log like a pro

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  1. Open the failed step — not only the job summary.
  2. Scroll to the first Error / non-zero exit.
  3. Reproduce the same command locally in the same major runtime version.
  4. Push a fix; avoid "re-run" loops without changes when the failure is deterministic.
  5. If the failure is infra (GitHub outage), check status pages and re-run once.

This matches how you will debug Jenkins Console Output next chapter.