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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by marcprux »

yashap wrote: post #66
alamsterdam wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mon and Dad (MS) are (generally) pretty solid with uptime. What is happening at GH? Rate of change trying to keep up with new challengers? Over-reliance on AI? Engineers trying to debug slop?

Yeah who knows, would be interesting to hear an inside take if any readers here are also GH devs! They're at 93.91% uptime over the past 90 days, according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ , and that doesn't even include today's outage yet. A glorious one nine of reliability.

I see two nines in there…

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by warmwaffles »

yashap wrote: post #66
alamsterdam wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mon and Dad (MS) are (generally) pretty solid with uptime. What is happening at GH? Rate of change trying to keep up with new challengers? Over-reliance on AI? Engineers trying to debug slop?

Yeah who knows, would be interesting to hear an inside take if any readers here are also GH devs! They're at 93.91% uptime over the past 90 days, according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ , and that doesn't even include today's outage yet. A glorious one nine of reliability.

Don't throw shade, there are two nines in that percentage for now. Miles a part though.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by jasonephraim »

I noticed my CI throwing errors all of a sudden. I sure wish they would become more active in alerting folks or build it into these tools - especially as these occurrences are becoming more frequent. Possibly an API-accessible services status. Then, at least we could build in our own checks when we hit errors and not have to hunt down what all is broken.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by dabbz »

opiniateddev wrote: post #85

Given the recent history of outages, I wonder how many are seriously considering moving off GitHub for anything other than code hosting. I mean actions / workflows.

My company moved to GH Actions 6 months ago even after I pushed back with a "Are you sure given their reliability issues of late?"

Now I'm stuck twiddling my thumbs with PR checks stuck/failing...

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by vladak »

I knew that when the build actions started failing en masse and my newly submitted PRs did not trigger the build actions at all (besides the mandatory one in my organization), it seemed logical to me to look at HN first..

Especially troublesome in the middle of trying to fix a high score security vulnerability when the release vehicle is Github.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

#90

Post by simoncion »

alamsterdam wrote: post #64
yashap wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's honestly insane how terrible their reliability is. Over the past 4 weeks, 8 days with GitHub Actions outages, many of them multi-hour outages: >3 hours on each of July 9th, July 20th and today, and 1.5 hrs on July 23rd. Outages happen, but this many outages so close together, and so many of them so major/long lasting, something is systematically wrong for sure. It's been seriously hamstringing our ability to shi…

Mon and Dad (MS) are (generally) pretty solid with uptime. What is happening at GH? Rate of change trying to keep up with new challengers? Over-reliance on AI? Engineers trying to debug slop?

> What is happening at GH?

In large part, the move from AWS to Azure. Azure's just bad.

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