glab-runner

name

glab-runner

description

Manage GitLab CI/CD runners — list, assign, unassign, inspect recent jobs and managers, pause/unpause via update, and delete runners at project, group, or instance level. Use when viewing runner status, assigning runners to projects, checking what jobs a runner handled, seeing manager processes, temporarily pausing a runner, or removing a decommissioned runner. Triggers on runner, glab runner, list runners, assign runner, unassign runner, runner jobs, runner managers, pause runner, unpause runner, delete runner, CI runner.

glab runner

Manage GitLab CI/CD runners from the command line.

Quick Start

# List runners for current project
glab runner list

# Pause a runner
glab runner update <runner-id> --pause

# Delete a runner
glab runner delete <runner-id>

Common Workflows

List Runners

# List all runners for current project
glab runner list

# List for a specific project
glab runner list --repo owner/project

# List all runners (instance-level, admin only)
glab runner list --all

# Output as JSON
glab runner list --output json

# Paginate
glab runner list --page 2 --per-page 50

Sample JSON output parsing:

# Find all paused runners
glab runner list --output json | python3 -c "
import sys, json
runners = json.load(sys.stdin)
paused = [r for r in runners if r.get('paused')]
for r in paused:
    print(f"{r['id']}: {r.get('description','(no description)')} — {r.get()}