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Status: Investigating reports of connectivity issues

77 points by xxkylexx 9y ago

mcny 9y ago
I was playing with tails and thought github just didn't allow tor usage. Github's service record is so good that I didn't even stop to consider this might be a technical problem with Github.
- computerex 9y ago
  I have the GitHub status page bookmarked. Take from that what you will.
sschueller 9y ago
It appears to be down only for some regions.
- barrystaes 9y ago
  Some pages (like the github.com landing and userprofile pages) including user sessions seem to be working from here. But not browsing a repository via http. Dunno if git pull is affected.
  - Kesty 9y ago
    Not sure if if it's regional but from Switzerland it's been around 1 hour that any kind of connection to github goes in timeout.
DeepRote 9y ago
The eclipse will destroy everything we hold dear! It started with the poorest failover system known to man! GGit hub deserves every piece of criticism they get. How they can receive so much funding and help and still manage to go down so many times every year absolutely baffles me. Of all the services I pay for, gitlab might be the best one in terms of bang for buck.
jackblack8989 9y ago
Reminder to avoid the github monoculture and move to other git providers as a backup. Gitlab is open source and has auto-pull from github
- treehau5 9y ago
  Gitlab is always mentioned here as an alternative on most every github outage post. I am wondering if there are gitlab shills ready to fire in these events? There are many other git products as well.
  - joatmon-snoo 9y ago
    The only major one that comes to mind is Bitbucket. Gitlab comes up a lot because its idealistic goals resonate with a lot of the people here.
  - dijit 9y ago
    I'm not paid, but I am a proponent for a federated web. I'm happy to host unlimited number of repos at my own expense[0] if it means people depending less on centralised hosting and allowing them to migrate away when they feel like it. [0] https://git.drk.sc https://git.drk.sc
  - aaomidi 9y ago
    They also have constant security issues. Some of these security issues make you doubt the quality of the code that Gitlab has...
  - jackblack8989 9y ago
    Gitlab pays me $50 per upvote (and a bonus based on the number of comments and my comment rank)
  - KirinDave 9y ago
    Perhaps instead of assuming everyone else in the universe is a mercenary liar, you could look to other explanations? I use Gitlab for some specific things. It's worth checking out. If only because it's nice to know what a migration strategy off githib would look like.
FTA 9y ago
This is the second major outage of GH this summer. I'm fearing we should all become less dependent on this single service for bug reporting, merging, etc. and instead leverage the decentralized power of Git to host on a variety of platforms. That way if one is out, you just fall back to another. Does anyone know of libraries that can sync at least the filed issues between GitHub and GitLab or Bitbucket in near real time? That's the main thing from GitHub that I'm truly missing when there's an outage.
- Nicksil 9y ago
  Is this a major outage? They've been experiencing connectivity issues for ~20 mins. I've been able to connect just fine all the while, as well. GitHub isn't 'down.'
Insanity 9y ago
And their status page has an unbalanced parenthesis [0]. I send their support an email about that. (There is also another on the messages page that I did include in the mail). It's quite a silly thing to complain about, but I imagine other software engineers also get slightly stressed by seeing an unbalanced paren! [0]: http://i.imgur.com/cypsCvx.png http://i.imgur.com/cypsCvx.png
- nkkollaw 9y ago
  It bothers _me_... :-)
- deleted 9y ago
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- pksadiq 9y ago
  True: https://xkcd.com/859/ https://xkcd.com/859/ :)
- s_kilk 9y ago
  I like to think that unbalanced parens accumulate in the soul, just like incomplete sneezes. Ones fate in the next life (perhaps starting equipment) is determined in part by the number of un-matched left parens hanging over ones head at the moment of death.
  - jey 9y ago
    Is this an unclosed paren? ;)
    - Insanity 9y ago
      Now I can't unsee them! What have you done! :(
- majewsky 9y ago
  I can't help but wonder if your username is a coincidence. :)
crabasa 9y ago
Queue obtuse comment about how this is no big deal because git is distributed source control, ignoring the fact that Github != git and that issues/PRs/etc are pretty important.
- Klathmon 9y ago
  Followed up by the comment that we need to stop this monoculture that we are creating and go back to mailing lists. Which is then countered by people arguing that GitHub was the greatest thing to happen to open source and has introduced so many more people to the OSS community. Perhaps throwing in that a self hosted solution will most likely have worse uptime than GitHub does (which spawns it's own sub-thread of SaaS vs self-hosted solutions) Then someone says that a higher barrier to entry could help the ecosystem (while muttering something about how many JS libraries there are out there). I could keep going, but it seems github is working again for me, so off to do some work!
  - majewsky 9y ago
    > which spawns it's own sub-thread of SaaS vs self-hosted solutions Our Github Enterprise instance sure has better uptime than Github itself. :)
- c12 9y ago
  also means that we cant composer install any project because even if the requirement is cached, each item is checked against github to see if the cached version should be invalidated :/ just took half an hour to complete an install...
yagurastation 9y ago
For people using GCP, this could be a viable contingency: Mirroring GitHub in GCP Cloud Source Repository https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/connecting-hosted-repositories https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/connecting...
CaliforniaKarl 9y ago
I'm sure this is related to the eclipse somehow.
film42 9y ago
Does github report RCAs for outages to the public? I'm wondering if these outages are related to their migration to kubernetes. Either way I'd love to learn what's going on and how they resolve these incidents. There's a lot to learn and I find these things super valuable.
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armandduijn 9y ago
Such an outage reminds us all how much we rely on GitHub just working. My 'flow' was suddenly interrupted because I couldn't continue my search for a specific PHP package. Luckily the workday is nearly over in the CET time zone so the impact on my productivity is minimal.
koolba 9y ago
So how many new installs does GitLab[1] get every time GitHub goes down? [1]: https://about.gitlab.com/ https://about.gitlab.com/
nkkollaw 9y ago
It's always been working from Poland from what I could tell. Is this possible?

77 points by xxkylexx 9y ago

mcny 9y ago

I was playing with tails and thought github just didn't allow tor usage. Github's service record is so good that I didn't even stop to consider this might be a technical problem with Github.

computerex 9y ago
I have the GitHub status page bookmarked. Take from that what you will.

sschueller 9y ago

It appears to be down only for some regions.

barrystaes 9y ago
Some pages (like the github.com landing and userprofile pages) including user sessions seem to be working from here. But not browsing a repository via http. Dunno if git pull is affected.
- Kesty 9y ago
  Not sure if if it's regional but from Switzerland it's been around 1 hour that any kind of connection to github goes in timeout.

DeepRote 9y ago

The eclipse will destroy everything we hold dear! It started with the poorest failover system known to man! GGit hub deserves every piece of criticism they get. How they can receive so much funding and help and still manage to go down so many times every year absolutely baffles me. Of all the services I pay for, gitlab might be the best one in terms of bang for buck.

jackblack8989 9y ago

Reminder to avoid the github monoculture and move to other git providers as a backup. Gitlab is open source and has auto-pull from github

treehau5 9y ago
Gitlab is always mentioned here as an alternative on most every github outage post. I am wondering if there are gitlab shills ready to fire in these events? There are many other git products as well.
- joatmon-snoo 9y ago
  The only major one that comes to mind is Bitbucket. Gitlab comes up a lot because its idealistic goals resonate with a lot of the people here.
- dijit 9y ago
  I'm not paid, but I am a proponent for a federated web. I'm happy to host unlimited number of repos at my own expense[0] if it means people depending less on centralised hosting and allowing them to migrate away when they feel like it. [0] https://git.drk.sc https://git.drk.sc
- aaomidi 9y ago
  They also have constant security issues. Some of these security issues make you doubt the quality of the code that Gitlab has...
- jackblack8989 9y ago
  Gitlab pays me $50 per upvote (and a bonus based on the number of comments and my comment rank)
- KirinDave 9y ago
  Perhaps instead of assuming everyone else in the universe is a mercenary liar, you could look to other explanations? I use Gitlab for some specific things. It's worth checking out. If only because it's nice to know what a migration strategy off githib would look like.

FTA 9y ago

This is the second major outage of GH this summer. I'm fearing we should all become less dependent on this single service for bug reporting, merging, etc. and instead leverage the decentralized power of Git to host on a variety of platforms. That way if one is out, you just fall back to another. Does anyone know of libraries that can sync at least the filed issues between GitHub and GitLab or Bitbucket in near real time? That's the main thing from GitHub that I'm truly missing when there's an outage.

Nicksil 9y ago
Is this a major outage? They've been experiencing connectivity issues for ~20 mins. I've been able to connect just fine all the while, as well. GitHub isn't 'down.'

Insanity 9y ago

And their status page has an unbalanced parenthesis [0]. I send their support an email about that. (There is also another on the messages page that I did include in the mail). It's quite a silly thing to complain about, but I imagine other software engineers also get slightly stressed by seeing an unbalanced paren! [0]: http://i.imgur.com/cypsCvx.png http://i.imgur.com/cypsCvx.png

nkkollaw 9y ago
It bothers _me_... :-)
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pksadiq 9y ago
True: https://xkcd.com/859/ https://xkcd.com/859/ :)
s_kilk 9y ago
I like to think that unbalanced parens accumulate in the soul, just like incomplete sneezes. Ones fate in the next life (perhaps starting equipment) is determined in part by the number of un-matched left parens hanging over ones head at the moment of death.
- jey 9y ago
  Is this an unclosed paren? ;)
  - Insanity 9y ago
    Now I can't unsee them! What have you done! :(
majewsky 9y ago
I can't help but wonder if your username is a coincidence. :)

crabasa 9y ago

Queue obtuse comment about how this is no big deal because git is distributed source control, ignoring the fact that Github != git and that issues/PRs/etc are pretty important.

Klathmon 9y ago
Followed up by the comment that we need to stop this monoculture that we are creating and go back to mailing lists. Which is then countered by people arguing that GitHub was the greatest thing to happen to open source and has introduced so many more people to the OSS community. Perhaps throwing in that a self hosted solution will most likely have worse uptime than GitHub does (which spawns it's own sub-thread of SaaS vs self-hosted solutions) Then someone says that a higher barrier to entry could help the ecosystem (while muttering something about how many JS libraries there are out there). I could keep going, but it seems github is working again for me, so off to do some work!
- majewsky 9y ago
  > which spawns it's own sub-thread of SaaS vs self-hosted solutions Our Github Enterprise instance sure has better uptime than Github itself. :)
c12 9y ago
also means that we cant composer install any project because even if the requirement is cached, each item is checked against github to see if the cached version should be invalidated :/ just took half an hour to complete an install...

yagurastation 9y ago

For people using GCP, this could be a viable contingency: Mirroring GitHub in GCP Cloud Source Repository https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/connecting-hosted-repositories https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/connecting...

CaliforniaKarl 9y ago

I'm sure this is related to the eclipse somehow.

film42 9y ago

Does github report RCAs for outages to the public? I'm wondering if these outages are related to their migration to kubernetes. Either way I'd love to learn what's going on and how they resolve these incidents. There's a lot to learn and I find these things super valuable.

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armandduijn 9y ago

Such an outage reminds us all how much we rely on GitHub just working. My 'flow' was suddenly interrupted because I couldn't continue my search for a specific PHP package. Luckily the workday is nearly over in the CET time zone so the impact on my productivity is minimal.

koolba 9y ago

So how many new installs does GitLab[1] get every time GitHub goes down? [1]: https://about.gitlab.com/ https://about.gitlab.com/

nkkollaw 9y ago

It's always been working from Poland from what I could tell. Is this possible?