Outage in Blacksmith
GitHub outage affecting job failures and dashboard errors
Resolved Major
August 17, 2026 - Started 17 days ago
- Lasted about 7 hours
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
GitHub experienced a major outage lasting 7 hours that caused the Blacksmith Dashboard to fail to load and triggered elevated job failure rates and delayed job adoption times due to upstream 503 errors on GitHub permission-check requests. Both GitHub API requests and webhooks were affected, stemming from an incident declared on GitHub's side. Recovery was gradual, with intermittent API errors persisting before fully resolving, after which the dashboard and jobs returned to normal operation.
The Blacksmith Dashboard is unable to load. We've identified the root cause to upstream 503s being returned from GitHub on permission-check requests.
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IDENTIFIED
17 days ago - at 08/17/2026 01:43PM
The Blacksmith Dashboard is unable to load. We've identified the root cause to upstream 503s being returned from GitHub on permission-check requests.
IDENTIFIED
17 days ago - at 08/17/2026 01:46PM
Upstream incident has been declared: u003chttps://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmxu003eWe are also seeing elevated error rates in jobs as they hit upstream GitHub errors. Job adoption times are also affected and are delayed. We are monitoring and are looking at potential mitigations.
MONITORING
17 days ago - at 08/17/2026 04:56PM
We're seeing signs of GitHub recovery. The dashboard is now loading and jobs should be running again. We are monitoring the recovery.
MONITORING
17 days ago - at 08/17/2026 05:52PM
We are still seeing intermitting GitHub API errors at a low rate.
MONITORING
17 days ago - at 08/17/2026 07:32PM
We are no longer seeing upstream errors, and are continuing to monitor impact of the upstream outage.
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