Blacksmith incident
Requests to GitHub failing due to upstream incident
Resolved after 2 hours 29 minutes, on August 18, 2026.
Jobs failure rate at an elevated rate caused by an upstream GitHub being rejected by 429 rate-limit errors. We are seeing a single-digit percentage increase in job failure rate across all organizations and are seeing similar failures on non-Blacksmith infrastructure..
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- monitoring Aug 18, 2026, 08:45 PM UTC
Jobs failure rate at an elevated rate caused by an upstream GitHub being rejected by 429 rate-limit errors. We are seeing a single-digit percentage increase in job failure rate across all organizations and are seeing similar failures on non-Blacksmith infrastructure..
- resolved Aug 18, 2026, 11:14 PM UTC
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