CI pipelines stall when runners for a tag go offline
Pipelines hang in pending or fail with 'no matching runner' because the runners for a tag are offline or overloaded.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 4 December 2024 · last reported 3 February 2026
What's going wrong
Teams using GitLab CI/CD report that pipelines sit in Pending for minutes or hours, or fail with a 'no matching runner' error, even when their configuration is correct.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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- Related problems.
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