Blacksmith incident
Requests to GitHub failing due to upstream incident
Blacksmith experienced a minor incident on August 18, 2026, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- resolved Aug 18, 2026, 08:45 PM UTC
Type: Incident Duration: 2 hours and 29 minutes Aug 18, 20:45:03 GMT+0 - Monitoring - 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. Aug 18, 23:14:25 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.