Blacksmith incident
GitHub outage affecting job failures and dashboard errors
Resolved after 6 hours 57 minutes, on August 17, 2026.
We are no longer seeing upstream errors, and are continuing to monitor impact of the upstream outage..
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- identified Aug 17, 2026, 01:43 PM UTC
The Blacksmith Dashboard is unable to load. We've identified the root cause to upstream 503s being returned from GitHub on permission-check requests..
- identified Aug 17, 2026, 01:46 PM UTC
Upstream incident has been declared: We are also seeing elevated error rates in jobs as they hit upstream GitHub errors. Job adoption times are also affected and are delayed. We are monitoring and are looking at potential mitigations..
- monitoring Aug 17, 2026, 04:56 PM UTC
We're seeing signs of GitHub recovery. The dashboard is now loading and jobs should be running again. We are monitoring the recovery..
- monitoring Aug 17, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC
We are still seeing intermitting GitHub API errors at a low rate. .
- monitoring Aug 17, 2026, 07:32 PM UTC
We are no longer seeing upstream errors, and are continuing to monitor impact of the upstream outage..
- resolved Aug 17, 2026, 08:40 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved..
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