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Outage in GitHub

Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages

Resolved Minor
August 18, 2026 - Started 3 days ago - Lasted about 4 hours
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Summary AI Generated

GitHub Actions experienced a communication issue between Actions services that caused intermittent failures to load runner groups and runner-related permissions pages for customers using Larger Runners. The incident lasted approximately 4 hours before a mitigation was applied and recovery confirmed. The incident was fully resolved, with a root cause analysis to follow.

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

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RESOLVED 3 days ago - at 08/18/2026 11:42AM

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.

MONITORING 3 days ago - at 08/18/2026 11:24AM

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

MONITORING 3 days ago - at 08/18/2026 10:41AM

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.

MONITORING 3 days ago - at 08/18/2026 07:40AM

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

INVESTIGATING 3 days ago - at 08/18/2026 07:40AM

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

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