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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by x86a »

purkka wrote: post #69
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 have to wonder how a company at the scale of GitHub can be so bad at keeping track of their status. Now 4 out of 10 services are marked as "Incident", yet most of the others are also completely dead.

This is intentional. It's mostly a matter of discussing how to communicate it publicly and when to flip the switch to start the SLA timer. Also coordinating incident response during a huge outage is always challenging.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by [deleted] »

xelamonster wrote: post #30

Love that HN is a better status page for dev services than most companies can manage to provide. Knew I'd find it here but on the front page within 3 minutes is impressive.

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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by TwiztidK »

karmakaze wrote: post #36
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 get the angry unicorn page "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists. Contact Support — GitHub Status — @githubstatus" with that last link going to https://x.com/githubstatus showing "GitHub Status Oct 22, 2018 Everything operating normally."

The era of Twitter/X status pages needs to come to an end given how unusable it is if you aren't logged in.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by damiankennedy »

damiankennedy wrote: post #67
damiankennedy wrote: post #63

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Update - Copilot is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:13 UTC

Update - We are investigating reports of issues with GitHub.com and GitHub API. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:16 UTC EDIT: The reply link is no longer available. Update - Packages is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:18 UTC

The reply link is now available?

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

EDIT: The reply link is no longer available again.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by RIMR »

bitbasher wrote: post #14

The timing is pretty uncanny. I just deployed a github page and had a DNS issue because I configured it wrong. I hit "check again" and github went down. Hope I don't appear in the incident report.

This will all clear up when it finishes checking your DNS configuration I bet.
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