Blacksmith incident

Requests to GitHub failing due to upstream incident

Notice Resolved

Blacksmith experienced a notice incident on August 18, 2026, lasting 2h 29m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 18, 2026, 08:45 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 18, 2026, 11:14 PM UTC
Duration
2h 29m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 18, 2026, 08:45 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. 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.

  2. resolved Aug 18, 2026, 11:14 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.