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Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

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Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

#31

Post by wongarsu »

mondss wrote: post #2

I can't be the only one that feels that GitLab has extended downtime at least weekly, sometimes bi-weekly.

Not downtime, but some kind of issue, yes [1]. However github is not much better [2] and gives much less detail and fewer updates. Bitbucket is more solid recently [3] (but wasn't really better than the others in 2020)

1: https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/5b36dc6502d06804c083...

2: https://www.githubstatus.com/history (don't get fooled by them collapsing the incident list after three per month)

2: https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/history (also collapses after three per month)

Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

#32

Post by skohan »

0x008 wrote: post #7
mondss wrote: post #2

I can't be the only one that feels that GitLab has extended downtime at least weekly, sometimes bi-weekly.

I use gitlab daily and have not experienced any outage in last 6 months probably.

Same - I've had zero issues.

Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

#33

Post by INTPenis »

I love Gitlab because I love open source and competition but Gitlab either on-prem or gitlab.com has been having growing pains ever since I started using it around 2015.

And it seems to be related to scaling because it's always iffy problems like higher error rates or jobs not executing.

Either way, I love our on-prem Gitlab. It's free and it hosts over 200 projects, Gitops and the whole shebang. I'm just now beginning to use Kubernetes from it.

They will sort this out eventually.

Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

#34

Post by KptMarchewa »

joana035 wrote: post #27
Bombthecat wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, they are stretching and extending gitlab with more and more functions.. With a... Not so great code base..

Is there any code base in this world that developers would not complain about? ;)

The one that will never be deployed on production. Real world unfortunately corrupts beautiful code with it's pesky complications.

Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

#35

Post by wdb »

stabbles wrote: post #10
mondss wrote: post #2

I can't be the only one that feels that GitLab has extended downtime at least weekly, sometimes bi-weekly.

Github seems to be doing worse

Gitlab is completely down until just now, similar happened not that long ago. Over the last three weeks continuously had issues with the Gitlab runners (even not shared ones) were it wouldn't jobs or only after a second or third retry attempt.

I think the flakiness of jobs succeeding is also related whether you use their package registry. I can't say I had similar issues with Github.

Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

#36

Post by KptMarchewa »

Jenk wrote: post #8
RicoElectrico wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obligatory "is bi-weekly 2 or 0.5 times a week" confusion comment ;) Though from the context it's 2.

This is why we have "fortnightly" in the English language.

Or just say "twice a week" and "once every two weeks" and not leave everyone in a meeting thinking you're talking about popular video game.

Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

#37

Post by qeternity »

We switched from self-hosted to gitlab.com a couple months back and the migration has been extremely disappointing.

Pushing commits often hangs completely, and we've had a number of smaller downtimes/degradations in recent weeks that have been super disruptive.

Having been Gitlab users since our inception, we're now seriously considering Github (I know - grass is always greener).

Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

#39

Post by wdb »

time0ut wrote: post #22
0x008 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use gitlab daily and have not experienced any outage in last 6 months probably.

It is usually their shared runners. I experience outages with them a couple times a month. It isn't a big deal since we maintain our own private pool, so I just move jobs to them. (They make you pay for CI minutes so we use them for certain jobs.)

For me even our private runners stopped worked over the last few weeks

Re: Gitlab.com was experiencing elevated error rates for Git, Web, and API

#40

Post by smcleod »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #30
drcursor wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pitty its licensing cost will go up ten fold next year.

How so? Pics or it didn’t happen.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/01/26/new-gitlab-product-...
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