GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

Post by toast0 » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

lucideer wrote: post #117

827a wrote: post #113

I don't want to give too much credit to Github, because their uptime is truly horrendous and they need to fix it. But: I've felt like its a little unfair to judge the uptime of company platforms like this; by saying "if any feature at all is down, its all down" and then translating that into 9s for the platform. I never use Github Copilot; it does go down a lot, if their status page is to be believed; I don't really…

You're right that labelling any outage as "Github is down" is an overgeneralisation, & we should focus on bottlenecks that impact teams in a time sensitive matter, but that isn't the case here. Their most stable service (API) has only two 9s (99.69%). They're not even struggling to get their average to three 9s, they're struggling to get ANY service to three 9s. They're struggling to get many services to two 9s. Copi…

Post by NewJazz » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

a-french-anon wrote: post #43

cedws wrote: post #18

While GitHub obsess over shoving AI into everything, the rest of the platform is genuinely crumbling and its security flaws are being abused to cause massive damage. Last week Aqua Security was breached and a few repositories it owns were infected. The threat actors abused widespread use of mutable references in GitHub Actions, which the community has been screaming about for years, to infect potentially thousands of…

If you want more ammo for your ranting (no offense meant, I also rant): an issue as massive as https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/142308 lingering for years should do the trick.

Post by saxonww » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 4:31 PM UTC

827a wrote: post #113

I don't want to give too much credit to Github, because their uptime is truly horrendous and they need to fix it. But: I've felt like its a little unfair to judge the uptime of company platforms like this; by saying "if any feature at all is down, its all down" and then translating that into 9s for the platform. I never use Github Copilot; it does go down a lot, if their status page is to be believed; I don't really…

Post by franktankbank » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 4:43 PM UTC

imglorp wrote: post #105

lijok wrote: post #100

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The problem is actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 probably doesn’t do this same pinning, and the actions ecosystem is such an intertwined mess that any single compromised action can propagate to the rest

Yes, true, but at least the fire won't spread through this one point. Hopefully all of your upstreams can be persuaded to pin also.

Post by maverwa » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 4:47 PM UTC

PunchyHamster wrote: post #128

mminer237 wrote: post #80

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Note that it gets 90% largely off Copilot going down and Actions not working. Actual git has 98.98%, which is still just one 9 but a lot better.

> 98.98% it's the 2 nines they aimed for