Blacksmith Outage History

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There were 28 Blacksmith outages since February 9, 2026 totaling 18h 42m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.blacksmith.sh

Major April 30, 2026

Degraded Actions performance in us-west

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 30, 2026, 01:17 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 30, 2026, 05:36 PM UTC
Duration
4h 18m
Affected: Blacksmith Managed Runners (US X86)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. monitoring Apr 30, 2026, 01:17 PM UTC

    We are aware of some reports of slow Actions performance in our us-west region. A mitigation has been applied and we're now seeing signs of recovery

  2. monitoring Apr 30, 2026, 02:11 PM UTC

    We are continuing to see recovery in us-west

  3. resolved Apr 30, 2026, 05:36 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

Minor April 28, 2026

Blacksmith control plane DB maintenance

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 28, 2026, 03:45 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 28, 2026, 05:50 PM UTC
Duration
2h 4m
Affected: Blacksmith Managed Runners (EU ARM)Blacksmith Managed Runners (EU X86)Blacksmith Managed Runners (US ARM)Blacksmith Managed Runners (US X86)Blacksmith Managed Runners (EU-WEST x86)Blacksmith Managed Runners (US-CENTRAL MACOS)
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Apr 28, 2026, 03:45 PM UTC

    We are performing brief maintenance on our database. Customers may experience some delays with job adoption

  2. monitoring Apr 28, 2026, 03:47 PM UTC

    We have completed the DB operation and currently re-queuing jobs. This may take \~15 minutes

  3. monitoring Apr 28, 2026, 04:44 PM UTC

    The re-queuing is still in progress however new jobs are being picked up without delay.

  4. resolved Apr 28, 2026, 05:50 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major April 27, 2026

Github Actions Degraded

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 27, 2026, 04:38 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 28, 2026, 12:01 AM UTC
Duration
7h 22m
Affected: Status | Blacksmith
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 27, 2026, 04:38 PM UTC

    GitHub is reporting a GitHub Actions degradation, and we're monitoring the impact

  2. resolved Apr 28, 2026, 12:01 AM UTC

    GitHub resolved their upstream outage and we are not seeing any customer impact.

Read the full incident report →

Minor April 23, 2026

Github Actions and Packages degraded

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 23, 2026, 02:57 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 23, 2026, 05:31 PM UTC
Duration
2h 34m
Affected: Status | BlacksmithBlacksmith Managed Runners (EU ARM)Blacksmith Managed Runners (EU X86)Blacksmith Managed Runners (US ARM)Blacksmith Managed Runners (US X86)Blacksmith Managed Runners (EU-WEST x86)Blacksmith Managed Runners (US-CENTRAL MACOS)
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 02:57 PM UTC

    We are currently monitoring the effects of a Github outage:

  2. resolved Apr 23, 2026, 03:24 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved by Github.

  3. monitoring Apr 23, 2026, 03:28 PM UTC

    It seems that there's still trailing effects from the incident and we're seeing queue times due to slow webhook delivery.

  4. resolved Apr 23, 2026, 05:31 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved by Github.

Read the full incident report →

Minor April 22, 2026

Sticky Disk degradation in the US-WEST cluster

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 22, 2026, 05:50 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 22, 2026, 08:14 PM UTC
Duration
2h 23m
Affected: Status | BlacksmithIncremental Docker BuildersDocker Container CacheStickydisks
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 05:50 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this incident.

  2. monitoring Apr 22, 2026, 06:41 PM UTC

    We needed to perform an emergency maintenance operation in our storage cluster. We are observing the recovery and seeing docker build speeds improve.

  3. resolved Apr 22, 2026, 08:14 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

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