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Re: GitHub Is Down

#21
Am I hallucinating or did they do a "cleanup" of the GH status in their status page? https://www.githubstatus.com/

API Requests with 4 nines of availability??

Issues with 99.96 uptime?

PR with 99.61% uptime last 90 days??

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ marks PRs at 95.89% in the same period as an example.

Re: GitHub Is Down

#24
The Google SRE book offers the following as one of the reasons to not gun for 100% reliability (emphasis added):

> users typically don’t notice the difference between high reliability and extreme reliability in a service, because the user experience is dominated by less reliable components like the cellular network or the device they are working with. Put simply, a user on a 99% reliable smartphone cannot tell the difference between 99.99% and 99.999% service reliability!

I've been on a shaky relationship with my ISP of late. What brought me to this thread today is that I couldn't push to Github. Notably this isn't covered by their downtime report so, going by the available facts, it's _probably_ not Github's fault I couldn't push; and I've just been on my daily stand-up call and I got disconnected so frequently.

But looking beyond today's available facts, odds are there's a bigger problem GH is not mentioning in their status page. They say the current incident has to do with "unauthorized users" and I wonder if pushing a commit from my IDE client counts as an operation from an "unauthorized user" as I still have to authorize with my SSH key.

It's just insane I can't decide which between Github or German o2 should be the more reliable service!

Re: GitHub Is Down

#25

Am I hallucinating or did they do a "cleanup" of the GH status in their status page? https://www.githubstatus.com/ API Requests with 4 nines of availability?? Issues with 99.96 uptime? PR with 99.61% uptime last 90 days?? https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ marks PRs at 95.89% in the same period as an example.

I had checked that page not long ago, and as far as I remember there were many "red" or "orange" days in the past 3 months. Now it's all green. That's concerning

Re: GitHub Is Down

#26
post #19

This has gotten to a point where it doesn't really matter anymore. When a service crosses a certain reliability threshold it's like a phase change. The customer base eventually adapts to the situation. Anyone who still genuinely cares has moved to self hosted enterprise or something else by now. It was most tenuous for me when they almost met the SLA. Now that they've blown so far beyond it, the stress is mostly gone…

I care but I can't move out because it's Orders from Up High which migrated us to Github. We haven't been here a year and it's not worth my neck to mirror our code in some kind of skunkworks forge instance. Woe. Woe is me.

Re: GitHub Is Down

#27
post #22

What's going on with GitHub lately? I've never seen them having so much issues over the years as they do have now.

Microsoft management/engineering practices+AI slop.

I get that, but all of that was in there for quite some time though, no?

Re: GitHub Is Down

#28

Am I hallucinating or did they do a "cleanup" of the GH status in their status page? https://www.githubstatus.com/ API Requests with 4 nines of availability?? Issues with 99.96 uptime? PR with 99.61% uptime last 90 days?? https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ marks PRs at 95.89% in the same period as an example.

They have an incident reported today, but the status page for actions shows green :D that's fun.

Re: GitHub Is Down

#29

Am I hallucinating or did they do a "cleanup" of the GH status in their status page? https://www.githubstatus.com/ API Requests with 4 nines of availability?? Issues with 99.96 uptime? PR with 99.61% uptime last 90 days?? https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ marks PRs at 95.89% in the same period as an example.

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/x69zbgdyfzg0 took three days to resolve and isn't being counted as an outage on the official page.

Re: GitHub Is Down

#30

Am I hallucinating or did they do a "cleanup" of the GH status in their status page? https://www.githubstatus.com/ API Requests with 4 nines of availability?? Issues with 99.96 uptime? PR with 99.61% uptime last 90 days?? https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ marks PRs at 95.89% in the same period as an example.

Seems like if they changed the criteria of downtime. If you hover over the individual days you’ll see lot of degraded messages, but still green.
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