Namespace incident

Degraded networking performance

Resolved after 6 hours 42 minutes, affecting GitHub Runners and Northern Virginia, US, on October 6, 2026.

identified Oct 06, 2026, 07:29 PM UTC

We see partial recovery after mitigations were applied, but networking continues to show degradation in the high percentiles. The team is working on deploying additional capacity to work towards a full recovery.

Started
Oct 06, 2026, 04:43 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 06, 2026, 11:26 PM UTC
Duration
6h 42m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 06, 2026, 04:43 PM UTC

Affected components

GitHub RunnersNorthern Virginia, US

Update timeline

  1. identified Oct 06, 2026, 04:43 PM UTC

    We're seeing increased queue time for a subset of jobs, the team is working on mitigation.

  2. identified Oct 06, 2026, 05:06 PM UTC

    We're seeing severely degraded checkout performance, we're investigating the cause. This causes to increased runtime and concurrency exhaustion, leading to increased queue time.

  3. identified Oct 06, 2026, 05:27 PM UTC

    Checkout performance continues to be degraded, the team is root-causing the issue and working on mitigation options.

  4. identified Oct 06, 2026, 05:57 PM UTC

    We continue seeing degraded networking performance, the team is working on establishing an alternative transit path.

  5. identified Oct 06, 2026, 07:29 PM UTC

    We see partial recovery after mitigations were applied, but networking continues to show degradation in the high percentiles. The team is working on deploying additional capacity to work towards a full recovery.

  6. resolved Oct 06, 2026, 11:26 PM UTC

    All systems are operational.

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