diff --git a/.github/workflows/pull-request-dashboard.yml b/.github/workflows/pull-request-dashboard.yml
index 0c92a2fdb..970379413 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pull-request-dashboard.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pull-request-dashboard.yml
@@ -231,4 +231,8 @@ jobs:
       issues: write # needed to open/close the hourly failure tracking issue
     uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable-workflow-notification.yml
     with:
-      success: ${{ needs.resolve-targets.result == 'success' && needs.run-repo-dashboard.result == 'success' }}
+      # A superseded per-repo publish is cancelled (publish-dashboard uses
+      # cancel-in-progress: true), so count cancelled as success here to avoid
+      # opening noisy failure issues. Genuine failures still surface because
+      # matrix aggregation reports 'failure' in preference to 'cancelled'.
+      success: ${{ needs.resolve-targets.result == 'success' && (needs.run-repo-dashboard.result == 'success' || needs.run-repo-dashboard.result == 'cancelled') }}