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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by manquer »

j3s wrote: post #26

for everyone complaining about the status page - status pages are normally operated by hand by design, and will rarely reflect things in real-time. give the poor github ops folks a second to get things moving.

Most status page products integrate to monitoring tools like Datadog[1], large teams like github would have it automated.

You ideally do not want to be making a decision on whether to update a status page or not during the first few minutes of an incident, bean counters inevitably tend to get involved to delay/not declare downtime if there is a manual process.

It is more likely the threshold is kept a bit higher than couple of minutes to reducing false positives rates, not because of manual updates.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage/integrations

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by timetraveller26 »

Its all down according to https://www.githubstatus.com/

  Update - Issues is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
  Aug 14, 2024 - 23:19 UTC
  Update - Git Operations is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
  Aug 14, 2024 - 23:19 UTC
  Update - Packages is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
  Aug 14, 2024 - 23:18 UTC
  Update - Copilot is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
  Aug 14, 2024 - 23:13 UTC
  Update - Pages is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
  Aug 14, 2024 - 23:12 UTC

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by fragmede »

ergocoder wrote: post #27
sebmellen wrote: post #7

I've never seen an outage this big. Even the homepage doesn't load. We've had recurrent issues with Actions not running, but this seems a lot bigger. The status page says all is well, though: https://www.githubstatus.com/ . Hilarious.

I wonder why the status just doesn't ping github.com for 200. That seems easy to do.

from where? they don't only have one load balancer, so you'd still have the problem of the page showing green when it's not loading for some folk?

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by rvz »

sebmellen wrote: post #7

I've never seen an outage this big. Even the homepage doesn't load. We've had recurrent issues with Actions not running, but this seems a lot bigger. The status page says all is well, though: https://www.githubstatus.com/ . Hilarious.

Looks like we have a full house outage at GitHub with everything down. Much worse than the so-called Twitter / X recent speed-bump that was screeched at and quickly forgotten.

I don't think GitHub has recovered from the monthly incidents that keeps occurring. Quite frankly it is the expectation that something will go down every month at GitHub which shows how unreliable the service is and this has happened for years.

I guess this 4 year old prediction post really aged well after all about self-hosting and not going all in on Github [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406

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