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Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by nightpool »

onionisafruit wrote: post #327
mrshu wrote: post #310

GitHub no longer publishes aggregate numbers so here they are parsed out. It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

It's interesting to see that copilot has the worst overall. I use copilot completions constantly and rarely notice issues with it. I suspect incidents aren't added until after they resolve.

Completions run using a much simpler model that Github hosts and runs themselves. I think most of the issues with Copilot that I've seen are upstream issues with one or two individual models (e.g. the Twitter API goes down so the Grok model is unavailable, etc)

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by everfrustrated »

mrshu wrote: post #310

GitHub no longer publishes aggregate numbers so here they are parsed out. It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

Nice! I still remember the old GitHub status page which showed and reported on their uptime. No surprises they took it offline and replaced it with the current one when it started reporting the truth.

EDIT: You mention this with archive.org links! Love it! https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/#about

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by twistedpair »

In the age of Claude Code et al, my honest biggest bottleneck is GH downtime. I've got a dozen PRs I'm working on, but it's all frozen up, daily, with GH outages.

Are the other providers offering much better uptime GitLab, CircleCI, Harness? Saying this as someone that's been GH exclusive sicne 2010.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by gslepak »

bartread wrote: post #148
showerst wrote: post #7

If you'd have asked me a few years ago if anything could be an existential threat to github's dominance in the tech community I'd have quickly said no. If they don't get their ops house in order, this will go down as an all-time own goal in our industry.

Yeah, I'm literally looking at GitLab's "Migrate from GitHub" page on their docs site right now. If there's a way to import issues and projects I could be sold.

> If there's a way to import issues and projects I could be sold.

That is what that feature does. It imports issues and code and more (not sure about "projects", don't use that feature on Github).

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by Anon1096 »

mrshu wrote: post #310

GitHub no longer publishes aggregate numbers so here they are parsed out. It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

> It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services

That's not at all how you measure uptime. The per area measures are cool but the top bar measuring across all services is silly.

I'm unsure what they are targeting, seems across the board it's mostly 99.5+ with the exception of Copilot. Just doing math, 3 (independent, which I'm aware they aren't fully) 99.5 services brings you down to an overall "single 9" 98.5 healthy status but it's not meaningful to anyone.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by whatevermom3 »

jpalawaga wrote: post #79
gunapologist99 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can help you restore from backups if you will tell me where you backed it up. You did back it up, right? Right before you ran me with `--allow-dangerously-skip-permissions` and gave me full access to your databases and S3 buckets?

You're right! Let's just quickly promote your only read replica to the new primar---oops!

I was laughing really hard until I remembered it happened to me a few months ago and I wasn't having fun at that time.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by NewJazz »

cced wrote: post #94
mholt wrote: post #6

Of course they're down while I'm trying to address a "High severity" security bug in Caddy but all I'm getting is a unicorn when loading the report. (Actually there's 3 I'm currently working, but 2 are patched already, still closing the feedback loop though.) I have a 2-hour window right now that is toddler free. I'm worried that the outage will delay the feedback loop with the reporter(s) into tomorrow and ultimatel…

Which security bug(s) are you referring to?

Presumably bugs that may still be under embargo

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by munk-a »

Anon1096 wrote: post #345
mrshu wrote: post #310

GitHub no longer publishes aggregate numbers so here they are parsed out. It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

> It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services That's not at all how you measure uptime. The per area measures are cool but the top bar measuring across all services is silly. I'm unsure what they are targeting, seems across the board it's mostly 99.5+ with the exception of Copilot. Just doing math, 3 (independent, which I'm aware they aren't fully) 99.5 services brings you down to an o…

It depends whether the outages are overlapped or not. If the outages are not overlapped then that is indeed how you do it since some of your services being unavailable means your service is not fully available.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by persedes »

hnthrowaway0315 wrote: post #55
jbpadgett wrote: post #45

3 outages in 3 months straight according to their own status history. https://www.githubstatus.com/history

I wonder who left the team recently. Must be someone bagged with shadow knowledge. Or maybe they send devops/devs work to another continent.

rumors I've heard was that github is mostly run by contractors? That might explain the chaos more than simple vibe coding (which probably aggravates this)
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