Blacksmith incident

Elevated tail latency in git checkout operations

Major Resolved

Blacksmith experienced a major incident on May 8, 2026 affecting Blacksmith Managed Runners (US ARM) and Blacksmith Managed Runners (US X86), lasting 2h 8m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 08, 2026, 06:22 PM UTC
Resolved
May 08, 2026, 08:30 PM UTC
Duration
2h 8m
Detected by Pingoru
May 08, 2026, 06:22 PM UTC

Affected components

Blacksmith Managed Runners (US ARM)Blacksmith Managed Runners (US X86)

Update timeline

  1. identified May 08, 2026, 06:22 PM UTC

    We have been made aware of an upstream degradation in our US West region by our network provider. This is manifesting as some % of git checkout operations taking much longer than their baseline. We are working with our upstream provider to restore functionality.

  2. monitoring May 08, 2026, 07:54 PM UTC

    The upstream degradation has been resolved, we are seeing checkout times return to normal.

  3. resolved May 08, 2026, 08:30 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved, checkout operations are back to their baseline.