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Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages

ResolvedminorOfficial source confirmedFirst recorded update Aug 18, 2026, 07:40 AM · Resolved Aug 18, 2026, 11:42 AM

On August 18, 2026, between 05:02 UTC and 11:30 UTC, customers were unable to view or manage Actions Runners and Runner Groups through the GitHub UI and API. <br /><br />The issue was caused by failures in backend requests reading runner and runner group data. The failures were caused by an expired authentication certificate unique to this service. The certificate had been rotated in KeyVault, but a step to enable use at runtime had been paused to prevent recurrence of previous incidents triggered by this operation. <br /><br />The impact was mitigated by completing the enablement of the...

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  1. Aug 18, 2026, 11:42 AM
    Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages

    On August 18, 2026, between 05:02 UTC and 11:30 UTC, customers were unable to view or manage Actions Runners and Runner Groups through the GitHub UI and API. <br /><br />The issue was caused by failures in backend requests reading runner and runner group data. The failures were caused by an expired authentication certificate unique to this service. The certificate had been rotated in KeyVault, but a step to enable use at runtime had been paused to prevent recurrence of previous incidents triggered by this operation. <br /><br />The impact was mitigated by completing the enablement of the new c

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  2. Aug 18, 2026, 11:24 AM
    Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages

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

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  3. Aug 18, 2026, 10:41 AM
    Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages

    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.

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  4. Aug 18, 2026, 07:40 AM
    Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages

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

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  5. Aug 18, 2026, 07:40 AM
    Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages

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

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