GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

Post by sc68cal » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

mminer237 wrote: post #80

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And notably, that page makes this post's title inaccurate. As of this morning, it says `90.21% uptime`, which is a _single_ 9, not 3 (though that's for the platform as a whole, no individual component appears to achieve three 9s.)

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.

Post by maccard » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

mminer237 wrote: post #80

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And notably, that page makes this post's title inaccurate. As of this morning, it says `90.21% uptime`, which is a _single_ 9, not 3 (though that's for the platform as a whole, no individual component appears to achieve three 9s.)

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.

Post by maccard » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 6:31 PM UTC

CharlieDigital wrote: post #39

William_BB wrote: post #32

To me, Github has always seemed well positioned to be a one-stop solution for software development: code, CI/CD, documentation, ticket tracking, project management etc. Could anyone explain where they failed? I keep hearing that Github is terrible

We use GH and are investing more in the platform features. Codespaces specifically is quite good for agent heavy teams. Launch a full stack runtime for PRs that are agent owned. > keep hearing that Github is terrible I do not doubt people are having issues and I'm sure there have been outages and problems, but none that have affected my work for weeks. GH is many things to many teams and my sense is that some parts o…

Post by maccard » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

PxldLtd wrote: post #25

Eikon wrote: post #4

As of recently (workflows worked for months) I even have part of my CI on actions that fails with [0] 2026-02-27T10:11:51.1425380Z ##[error]The runner has received a shutdown signal. This can happen when the runner service is stopped, or a manually started runner is canceled. 2026-02-27T10:11:56.2331271Z ##[error]The operation was canceled. I had to disable the workflows. GitHub support response has been “ We recomme…

We've jumped ship to self-hosted Jenkins. Woodpecker CI looks cool but Jenkins seemed like a safer bet for us. It's been well worth the effort and it's simplified and sped up our CI massively. Once we got the email that they were going to charge for self-hosted runners that was the final nail in the coffin for us. They walked it back but we've lost faith entirely in the platform and vision.

Post by grafporno » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 7:18 PM UTC

martinald wrote: post #20

I wonder how much of this is down to the massive amount of new repos and commits (of good or bad quality!) from the coding agents. I believe that the App Store is struggling to keep up with (mostly manual tbf) app reviews now, with sharp increases in review times. I find it hard to believe that an Azure migration would be that detrimental to performance, especially with no doubt "unlimited credit" to play with? You c…