Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
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Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
#62Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it takes someone to manually change it from green to red, that does seem to defeat the purpose.
No it doesn't. The amount of false alarm alerts you can get with internet based monitoring is more than 0. You could have a BGP route break things for one ISP your monitoring happens to use. You could have a failover event happening where it takes 30 seconds for everything to converge. I have multiple monitors on my app at 1 minute intervals from different vendors and ALWAYS a user will email us within 5 seconds of a…
Who would panic? If nobody notices it's out because it's not, then nobody is going to be checking the status page. And if they do see the status page showing red while it's up, it's not like they're going to be unhappy about their SLA being met.
Maybe you want human confirmation on historic figures, but the live thing might as well be live.
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
#64Seems to be a fairly catastrophic failure. https://github.com/ fails to load. https://www.githubstatus.com/ shows all green as of this writing. Nothing on the twitter yet https://twitter.com/githubstatus edit: The outage is now acknowledged on the status page https://www.githubstatus.com/ edit: EU folks appear to have things working so it looks like a regional network fault
GitHub pages are down too, although funnily enough https://pages.github.com is up
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
#65Seems to be a fairly catastrophic failure. https://github.com/ fails to load. https://www.githubstatus.com/ shows all green as of this writing. Nothing on the twitter yet https://twitter.com/githubstatus edit: The outage is now acknowledged on the status page https://www.githubstatus.com/ edit: EU folks appear to have things working so it looks like a regional network fault
Pages hosted on github pages also show the unicorn 503 page. However, https://pages.github.com/?(null) loads.
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
#66Seems to be a fairly catastrophic failure. https://github.com/ fails to load. https://www.githubstatus.com/ shows all green as of this writing. Nothing on the twitter yet https://twitter.com/githubstatus edit: The outage is now acknowledged on the status page https://www.githubstatus.com/ edit: EU folks appear to have things working so it looks like a regional network fault
Ack’d on twitter: https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/1674475870931808256
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it takes someone to manually change it from green to red, that does seem to defeat the purpose.
Possibly, but sometimes with failures this bad you can't get to the page to update it.
There was that hilarious multi-hour AWS failure a while back where the status page was updated via one of their internal services... and that service went down as part of the outage.
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
#68Seems to be a fairly catastrophic failure. https://github.com/ fails to load. https://www.githubstatus.com/ shows all green as of this writing. Nothing on the twitter yet https://twitter.com/githubstatus edit: The outage is now acknowledged on the status page https://www.githubstatus.com/ edit: EU folks appear to have things working so it looks like a regional network fault
status.github.com was a timeout error for me. githubstatus.com is the rainbow unicorn.
Lunch time.
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
#69If they used AI to rebuild their system and migrated it Azure, I bet they would stop having all the problems.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
#70So down right now...I wonder why they still use https://www.githubstatus.com/ that reports everything is alright when it's not!
If it takes someone to manually change it from green to red, that does seem to defeat the purpose.
I bet they could teach Co-Pilot to create a PR to make the change, and build some GitHub actions to automatically merge those changes.