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Blacksmith Outage History

Every past Blacksmith outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 101 Blacksmith outages since April 2025. The 95 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major March 5, 2026

March 2026: GitHub Actions Degraded Availability

Detected Mar 5, 2026 11:49 AM EST · Resolved Mar 5, 2026 5:13 PM EST · Duration about 5 hours

GitHub Actions experienced degraded availability for 2.6 hours, preventing jobs from being picked up due to severe degradation in GitHub's API. The incident affected GitHub Actions and API requests, causing a backlog of jobs that needed to be processed. Recovery began when GitHub's APIs came back online, with some elevated wait times continuing as the remaining backlog was cleared.

Minor March 3, 2026

March 2026: GitHub API Request Failures

Detected Mar 3, 2026 2:07 PM EST · Resolved Mar 3, 2026 4:48 PM EST · Duration about 3 hours

Blacksmith experienced upstream failures with GitHub's API for 2.7 hours, affecting job adoption and GitHub interactions in running jobs. The issue was caused by a GitHub outage that impacted their APIs and Actions services. GitHub implemented a fix and service began recovering, though git operations remained degraded during the monitoring phase.

Minor February 25, 2026

February 2026: Delays in Job Adoption u0026 Degraded Git Operations

Detected Feb 25, 2026 4:19 PM EST · Resolved Feb 27, 2026 8:44 AM EST · Duration 1 day

Blacksmith experienced delays in job adoption and degraded GitHub service interactions, primarily affecting Checkout actions, due to an upstream GitHub outage. The incident impacted GitHub Actions and Blacksmith Managed Runners for 12.6 hours. The service showed signs of recovery and was resolved through monitoring as the upstream GitHub issues were addressed.

Minor February 23, 2026

February 2026: GH Actions Degraded Performance

Detected Feb 23, 2026 11:27 AM EST · Resolved Feb 23, 2026 12:11 PM EST · Duration 44 minutes

Blacksmith experienced degraded performance with GitHub Actions job adoption due to a related GitHub incident. The service disruption affected GitHub Actions, API requests, and webhooks for 44 minutes. The team monitored the situation and the issue was resolved following the resolution of the upstream GitHub incident.