GitLab Outage(status.gitlab.com)
63 pointsby kunley9 hours ago10 comments
  • davb9 hours ago
    Coincidentally (?) we’ve seen a huge uptick in failed login attempts to our MFA-protected admin accounts on our self-hosted Gitlab CE instance today. They’re coming from thousands of IPs across hundreds of networks (VPS providers and, apparently, residential proxies).
    • deckar019 hours ago
      There was a relative lull in GitHub bot activity the last few weeks, but they seem to be back today. I assume the promo token flood gates opened for the new models.
      • physicallyIllfr8 hours ago
        I dont think bots need bonus/trials. There are lots and lots of ways to get free, or virtually free tokens. Hell half the vibe coded AI chrome extensions send store their openrouter keys client side.
    • TZubiri7 hours ago
      It's probably related to the issue published by aikidolabs where leaked per-user gitlab issued emails were being used as a sort of credential.

      https://www.aikido.dev/blog/gitlab-email-push-to-main

  • b0afc375b59 hours ago
    Interesting that the status page was updated immediately. Is this the norm now? I remember back in the day when status pages showed all green even when servers were clearly down for a long time already.
    • stack_framer9 hours ago
      It was not updated immediately. I was seeing 503s for a solid 15 minutes while the status page was all green. This is also their second outage today:

      https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/5b36dc6502d06804c083...

      • nicholasjarnold9 hours ago
        Yep, status page was certainly all green when I started noticing it.
    • seabrookmx9 hours ago
      As others mentioned, it wasn't that quick.

      It's also not accurate. After nearly a half hour the page shows "git operations" as green but I'm not able to push/pull from my repos with SSH or HTTPS (and haven't been able to the whole time).

    • thesh4d0w9 hours ago
      It took at least 5 minutes, closer to 10. I think the outage is so bad, it got pushed fast.
  • delf8 hours ago
    You can use GitSocial to mirror to your own bucket for situations like this: `gitsocial mirror https://gitlab.com/owner/repo s3://s3.example.com/mybucket/repo`

    https://gitsocial.org/

  • hk13377 hours ago
    I like what tangled seems like it could be but it's still too new to really use. It'd be nice if it was more of an aggregator for git servers where still access a git server whether tangled is up or not.
    • mitxela6 hours ago
      You don't really need one of these systems. You can just host git.
      • hk133710 minutes ago
        True, my thought was a site that just makes it easier to see all the various users. Like GitHub but links to users and orgs actually go to each person’s server.
  • lampcord8 hours ago
    Another day, another reminder why we self-host our GitLab instance. Cloud convenience always has these kinds of trade-offs.
    • zer0x4d7 hours ago
      We self host ours too. 100% uptime ;)
      • gib4442 hours ago
        How do you do upgrades?
      • TZubiri7 hours ago
        what host are you using that gets 100%uptime? A hyperscaler like AWS?
        • mitxela6 hours ago
          Just means it hasn't crashed yet.
        • zer0x4d7 hours ago
          I run it on Digital Ocean but AWS should be fine too.
        • firesteelrain6 hours ago
          VMWare Cloud Foundation with Dell R7725s
  • nabeards9 hours ago
    Just went to push code and found this out.
    • nicholasjarnold9 hours ago
      Code review for me... Hit the 503. The status page lagged the event by ~10 mins or so it seems.

      git+ssh also seems affected, as I'm unable to push/pull right now.

  • smalltorch9 hours ago
    Gasp! immediately builds a complete git alternative to never expirence a single second of downtime ever again
    • JonChesterfield8 hours ago
      Well, git is already distributed, so you could use _any other computer_ instead of gitlab.com...
      • smalltorch8 hours ago
        I'm only kidding, although it could be a good excersise to learn. I think a pure TUI git front end / back end project would be fun to make.
      • gblosser7 hours ago
        or go back to Mercurial...

        Do you remember Mercurial?

        Pepperidge Farm remembers.

        • mitxela6 hours ago
          Isn't it just git but harder to use?
  • lemonish978 hours ago
    Right, on to another alternative now
  • tibbon7 hours ago
    Seems they can compete with GitHub after all! /s