Blacksmith incident

GitHub Outage Affecting Jobs

Major Resolved

Blacksmith experienced a major incident on July 19, 2026 affecting Github → Actions, lasting 4h 15m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 19, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 20, 2026, 03:54 AM UTC
Duration
4h 15m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 19, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC

Affected components

Github → Actions

Update timeline

  1. identified Jul 19, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC

    GitHub has opened an incident which we are seeing is affecting jobs getting picked up.

  2. identified Jul 20, 2026, 12:28 AM UTC

    We are continuing to see errors from GitHub when trying to provision CI jobs. They are continuing to investigate their incident.

  3. identified Jul 20, 2026, 02:21 AM UTC

    We are starting to see signs of recovery of upstream API errors and jobs have resumed running. We are continuing to monitor.

  4. identified Jul 20, 2026, 03:08 AM UTC

    Requests to GitHub API are now succeeding. There maybe some some delays in job adoption as we work through the large backlog of jobs that did not run during the incident.

  5. monitoring Jul 20, 2026, 03:35 AM UTC

    Job executions have returned to normal. We are monitoring the recovery.

  6. resolved Jul 20, 2026, 03:54 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.