Namespace incident
Elevated queue time for a small set of GitHub Action jobs
Namespace experienced a minor incident on August 19, 2026, lasting 8h 26m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 19, 2026, 03:33 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are seeing a very small subset of jobs experiencing elevated queue time. Newer runs of the same workflows are picking up runners with no delay. GitHub is not reporting an incident so far.
- monitoring Aug 19, 2026, 04:46 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring We're seeing a wider, but still low impact due to this issue. GitHub is not reporting any incident.
- monitoring Aug 19, 2026, 09:32 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring We are still seeing a low rate of jobs not getting assigned to runners timely by GitHub. Runners are starting timely and register successfully with GitHub. If you encounter that your job is not getting picked up, we recommend retrying it on GitHub, as the overall impact rate of this issue is low.
- resolved Aug 19, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC
Status: Resolved All systems are operational.