Flaky Tests

[!NOTE] This issue is automatically updated every day and provides an overview of flaky tests that have appeared in CI over the past 7 days.

Candidates are chosen by selecting CI workflow runs that failed and succeeded after being re-triggered (no pushes can occur inbetween, as that would create an entirely new run). While this approach minimizes false positives, note that many failed runs are not manually retriggered and thus not taken into consideration. As a result, the number of failed runs below is almost guaranteed to be lower than the number of failures technically observable.

We highly appreciate all help in fixing flaky tests! Once a fix has been merged, the test should eventually fade out of the below list.

TestHTTP_Index_Defaults (internal/vault/external_tests/api)

Last seen 22/09/2026 in https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/e98dc184344fe84ee4e69965ac3f4217d5b6a45d

go test github.com/openbao/openbao/v2/internal/vault/external_tests/api -run '^TestHTTP_Index_Defaults$'

TestNamespaceStore (internal/vault)

Last seen 21/09/2026 in https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/4040

go test github.com/openbao/openbao/v2/internal/vault -run '^TestNamespaceStore$'

TestPostgreSQL_Scalability (internal/vault/external_tests/postgresql_binary)

Last seen 21/09/2026 in https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/9c6fa01053194e94e670e81d037513823e96cb77

go test github.com/openbao/openbao/v2/internal/vault/external_tests/postgresql_binary -run '^TestPostgreSQL_Scalability$'

TestSSHBackend_BasicIssuerOperations (internal/builtin/logical/ssh)

Last seen 21/09/2026 in https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/9c6fa01053194e94e670e81d037513823e96cb77

go test github.com/openbao/openbao/v2/internal/builtin/logical/ssh -run '^TestSSHBackend_BasicIssuerOperations$'

TestSSH_ConfigCASubmitDefaultIssuer (internal/builtin/logical/ssh)

Last seen 17/09/2026 in https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/4028

go test github.com/openbao/openbao/v2/internal/builtin/logical/ssh -run '^TestSSH_ConfigCASubmitDefaultIssuer$'