Gitlab was down

#1

Post by vickyonit » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:08 AM UTC

Re: Gitlab was down

#2

Post by unilynx » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:12 AM UTC

It was already a bit flaky since last friday (although the status was still green then) - perhaps having to roll out two security updates yesterday pushed it over the edge...

Re: Gitlab was down

#3

Post by the-dude » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:28 AM UTC

One starts to wonder if they will ever get stability under control.

Re: Gitlab was down

#4

Post by kburman » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:28 AM UTC

> Website, API, Git (ssh and https), Pages, Registry, CI/CD, Background Processing, Support Services, packages.gitlab.com, customers.gitlab.com, version.gitlab.com, forum.gitlab.com

How come all of them are down all at once.

Re: Gitlab was down

#5

Post by sojmq » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:30 AM UTC

This strikes me as odd, because if there's something gitlab engineers are known for, is their unmatched competence,

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by pearjuice » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:31 AM UTC

I don't want to hijack this thread but what was the end result of the decision of Gitlab not hiring _in_ certain countries anymore? A lot of media coverage when the incident happened but no idea what happened afterwards and can't easily find it.

Re: Gitlab was down

#7

Post by beaconstudios » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:33 AM UTC

kburman wrote: post #4

> Website, API, Git (ssh and https), Pages, Registry, CI/CD, Background Processing, Support Services, packages.gitlab.com, customers.gitlab.com, version.gitlab.com, forum.gitlab.com How come all of them are down all at once.

presumably a single point of failure - my guess would be something at the network level.

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by Uninen » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:33 AM UTC

We use GitLab at work and I use it for personal projects as well, it has been very slow for several days now and they had downtime yesterday as well.

I don't mind the general sluggishness of the system that much (as I love the platform in general) but when you can't get your work (nor hobbies) done because of tools breaking, it gets really annoying really fast.

Re: Gitlab was down

#9

Post by jensvdh » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:35 AM UTC

sojmq wrote: post #5

This strikes me as odd, because if there's something gitlab engineers are known for, is their unmatched competence,

Like when they dropped their database and took a few days to recover?

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by manojlds » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:36 AM UTC

beaconstudios wrote: post #7

kburman wrote: post #4

> Website, API, Git (ssh and https), Pages, Registry, CI/CD, Background Processing, Support Services, packages.gitlab.com, customers.gitlab.com, version.gitlab.com, forum.gitlab.com How come all of them are down all at once.

presumably a single point of failure - my guess would be something at the network level.

It's always DNS!