GitHub reports multiple service issues

GitHub is dealing with 2 concurrent service issues — tracked live below.

By The Downtime · Aug 18, 2026 · 9:45 AM ·Updated 4 days ago

GitHub is investigating reports of impacted performance for some of its services, with major impact currently reported. The investigation remains ongoing as of the latest update.

GitHub, owned by Microsoft, provides cloud-based version control and collaboration tools used by millions of developers and organizations worldwide to build software.

The company first began investigating the reports of performance degradation affecting GitHub services. No additional details have been provided at this time.

This is a developing story; we will update as new information becomes available.

⚠️ Issues being tracked (2)

Incident with Actions

Resolved

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Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages

Resolved

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🕒 Live updates (7)

resolved Intermittent failures in runner group an... Aug 18, 11:42 AM

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 Intermittent failures in runner group an... Aug 18, 11:24 AM

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

monitoring Intermittent failures in runner group an... Aug 18, 10:41 AM

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.

resolved Incident with Actions Aug 18, 10:23 AM

This incident has been resolved.

investigating Incident with Actions Aug 18, 9:36 AM

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

monitoring Intermittent failures in runner group an... Aug 18, 7:40 AM

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

investigating Intermittent failures in runner group an... Aug 18, 7:40 AM

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

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