diff --git a/apiserver/controllers/controllers.go b/apiserver/controllers/controllers.go
index 4f7d18c8..d8750a50 100644
--- a/apiserver/controllers/controllers.go
+++ b/apiserver/controllers/controllers.go
@@ -159,8 +159,10 @@ func (a *APIController) WebhookHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	switch event {
 	case runnerParams.WorkflowJobEvent:
 		a.handleWorkflowJobEvent(ctx, w, r)
+	case runnerParams.PingEvent:
+		// Ignore ping event. We may want to save the ping in the github entity table in the future.
 	default:
-		slog.InfoContext(ctx, "ignoring unknown event", "gh_event", util.SanitizeLogEntry(string(event)))
+		slog.DebugContext(ctx, "ignoring unknown event", "gh_event", util.SanitizeLogEntry(string(event)))
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/params/github.go b/params/github.go
index fc4b1c59..cb9cecf0 100644
--- a/params/github.go
+++ b/params/github.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ const (
 	// WorkflowJobEvent is the event set in the webhook payload from github
 	// when a workflow_job hook is sent.
 	WorkflowJobEvent Event = "workflow_job"
+	PingEvent        Event = "ping"
 )
 
 // WorkflowJob holds the payload sent by github when a workload_job is sent.