Outage in Blacksmith

Timeouts reported when downloading certain actions from GitHub

Resolved Minor
August 28, 2025 - Started 25 days ago - Lasted about 1 hour

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Outage Details

We are being alerted of timeouts when downloading the different actions used in your workflow file from GitHub. This usually indicates some sort of upstream degradation in GitHub's control plane
Components affected
Blacksmith Github → Actions Blacksmith Github → API Requests
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
INVESTIGATING 25 days ago - at 08/28/2025 08:21PM

We are being alerted of timeouts when downloading the different actions used in your workflow file from GitHub. This usually indicates some sort of upstream degradation in GitHub's control plane

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