Outage in Blacksmith
Requests to GitHub failing due to upstream incident
Resolved Minor
August 18, 2026 - Started 16 days ago
- Lasted about 2 hours
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
Blacksmith experienced elevated job failure rates over 2.5 hours due to an upstream GitHub incident causing 429 rate-limit errors. A single-digit percentage of jobs failed across all organizations, with similar failures observed outside Blacksmith infrastructure, confirming the issue originated with GitHub. The incident was monitored until the upstream problem resolved.
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.
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16 days ago - at 08/18/2026 08:45PM
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.
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