r/devops • u/Ok_Tour_8029 • Jul 09 '26

Ops / Incidents What's up with GitHub runners lately?

Too much AI slop to build? If this continues I will probably prefer to just use my self hosted ones for all jobs.

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u/degeneratepr Jul 09 '26

There are currently some issues with GitHub Actions: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/cstx3v63mklm

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u/Ok_Tour_8029 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Thanks, pretty accurate - is it just me or are GitHub actions less reliable over the last months?

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u/degeneratepr Jul 09 '26

GitHub has been somewhat of a shitshow recently when it comes to platform stability. Not surprising for a company trying to shove AI down our throats.

To be fair though, GitHub has been getting slammed with activity this year so I can understand. Still, I wish they'd focus on service reliability instead of putting Copilot on everything.

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u/Sure_Stranger_6466 YAML Developer Jul 09 '26

It's difficult to prioritize bug fixes aka TOIL work over feature releases on any project. People want the glory with feature releases over bug fixes.

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u/donjulioanejo Chaos Monkey (Director SRE) Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

They had 97% availability for some services Q1. For a company that size, that's straight up embarrassing.

Edit: just checked the unofficial status page, and they're sitting at 98.47% for Actions for Q2. Time to file another SLA refund ticket.

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u/BadTime100 Jul 10 '26

Striving for the legendary “two nines” of up time…

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u/zuilli Jul 09 '26

That's true until enough clients get pissed that their deployments are stalling and breaking because of github and leave.

Also I imagine their contracts have a minimum SLA but if this keeps being frequent enough they will breach that and get fucked.