# GitHub Copilot: Extended job start delays for larger hosted runners

> GitHub Copilot status incident “Extended job start delays for larger hosted runners” on 2026-02-20: impact minor (vendor’s label), 41 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/zhfdlzldgh51
Last updated: 2026-02-20T20:41:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-02-20 20:00 UTC · Resolved: 2026-02-20 20:41 UTC · Duration: 41 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zhfdlzldgh51](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zhfdlzldgh51)
- [Company: GitHub Copilot](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2026-02-20 20:41 UTC: On February 20, 2026, between 17:45 UTC and 20:41 UTC, 4.2% of workflows running on GitHub Larger Hosted Runners were delayed by an average of 18 minutes. Standard, Mac, and Self-Hosted Runners were not impacted. The delays were caused by communication failures between backend services for one deployment of larger runners. Those failures prevented expected automated scaling and provisioning of larger hosted runner capacity within that deployment. This was mitigated when the affected infrastructure was recycled, larger runner pools in the affected deployment successfully scaled up, and queued jobs processed. We are working to improve the time to detect and diagnose this class of failures and improve the performance of recovery mechanisms for this degraded network state. In addition, we have architectural changes underway that will enable other deployments to pick up work in similar situations, so there is no customer impact due to deployment-specific infrastructure issues like this.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub Copilot, started 2026-02-20 20:00 UTC, resolved after 41 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/zhfdlzldgh51
- Citation: GitHub Copilot, “Extended job start delays for larger hosted runners” (2026-02-20 20:00 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/zhfdlzldgh51 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub Copilot: Extended job start delays for larger hosted runners (2026-02-20)](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/zhfdlzldgh51)`


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