Minor incident

Harness: CI Linux Cloud VM Networking issues - intermittent

Affected: Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Linux Cloud Builds, Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Linux Cloud Builds

Current status of Harness: Operational — live Harness status

Timeline

1. Sep 29, 2026, 18:45 UTC
   investigating
   We are currently investigating this issue.
2. Sep 29, 2026, 21:49 UTC
   monitoring
   A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
3. Sep 29, 2026, 22:01 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved.
4. Oct 2, 2026, 22:40 UTC
   postmortem
   ### Summary Between approximately **11:37 AM and 3:01 PM PDT \(18:37–22:01 UTC\) on September 29, 2026**, customers using Harness CI self-hosted Linux cloud runners in **prod1/prod2 \(us-west1\)** experienced intermittent networking failures during pipeline execution — primarily Git/network timeouts when fetching source code. **Root Cause** This was primarily due to saturation of our NAT which was futher exacerbated by a temporary cloud provider compute capacity, preventing new VM provisioning there. ### Impact * Customers running self-hosted Linux CI builds in us-west1 saw **intermittent build/pipeline failures**, not a full outage. * Observed customer-facing errors included Git fetch timeouts, e.g. `Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Connection timed out` **Remediation** * **Immediate:** Rebalanced ARM build-VM load from the saturated us-west1 path toward central1 \(partially limited by central1 capacity\); restarted the affected Cloud NAT gateways, which stabilized pipeline networking. **Action Items** 1. Secure additional NAT gateway/IP capacity \(In progress\) 2. Improve NAT saturation detection and alerting ahead of customer impact. 3. Evaluate cross-region capacity contingencies so a single region's compute shortage doesn't block failover mitigation.

Updates as published by Harness (original).