GitHub outage — August 17, 2026
Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages
GitHub’s Actions has a confirmed disruption, detected on August 17, 2026. 503Radar’s sensors raised the first signal at 22:54 UTC, 10h 44m before the official status page acknowledged impact.
Key facts
| Detected | August 17, 2026 · 22:54 UTC |
| Confirmed | 09:38 UTC · lead time 10h 44m |
| Service | Actions |
| Official record | https://stspg.io/98zqb1k9jh0x |
Timeline
- 22:54Z
Detected · Signal
3 crowd signals for Actions on GITHUB crossed the signal threshold. - 09:38Z
Confirmed · Official
An official GITHUB status-page notice corroborated the event — 10h 44m after detection.
How this was detected
1 independent evidence class for actions on GITHUB. 3 crowd reports across bluesky (single platform — not corroborating), z=-0.1σ vs the cell baseline. Official notice confirms it, 10h 44m after the crowd.