Ropes incident

Workspaces Failing to Start Due to Downstream Provider Outage

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Ropes experienced a major incident on March 3, 2026 affecting Ropes Assessments and Ropes Results Engine and 1 more component, lasting 49m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 03, 2026, 07:19 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 03, 2026, 08:09 PM UTC
Duration
49m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 03, 2026, 07:19 PM UTC

Affected components

Ropes AssessmentsRopes Results EngineRopes Problem Creation

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 03, 2026, 07:19 PM UTC

    GitHub is currently experiencing a major outage, which affects the availability of Ropes assessment workspaces. We will provide updates as we have them. For the most up-to-date outage information, see GitHub's status page directly: https://www.githubstatus.com/ We've toggled a setting to expose a banner informing candidates about the GitHub outage to ensure they are informed as to why they cannot begin the assessment.

  2. identified Mar 03, 2026, 07:20 PM UTC

    According to its status page, GitHub has identified the source of the issue. We are continuing to monitor.

  3. monitoring Mar 03, 2026, 07:27 PM UTC

    GitHub has implemented a mitigation, and our monitoring shows that requests to GitHub are now succeeding. Candidates can proceed with their assessments.

  4. resolved Mar 03, 2026, 08:09 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.