GitHub incident

Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

GitHub experienced a minor incident on August 18, 2026, lasting 4h 2m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 18, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 18, 2026, 11:42 AM UTC
Duration
4h 2m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 18, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 18, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC

    We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

  2. monitoring Aug 18, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC

    We are investigating reports of failure to load runner groups and runner-related permissions for customers using larger runners.

  3. monitoring Aug 18, 2026, 10:41 AM UTC

    We have identified the source of a communication issue between Actions services and are working toward mitigation. Customers may experience failure to load runner groups and runner-related permissions issues when using Larger Runners.

  4. monitoring Aug 18, 2026, 11:24 AM UTC

    We have applied a mitigation and are seeing recovery signals. We will continue monitoring recovery and providing updates.

  5. resolved Aug 18, 2026, 11:42 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.