GitLab Outage

davb•about 3 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).

deckar01•about 3 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.

physicallyIllfr•about 2 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.

TZubiri•about 1 hour 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

hk1337•34 minutes 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.

mitxela•5 minutes ago

You don't really need one of these systems. You can just host git.

b0afc375b5•about 3 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_framer•about 3 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...

nicholasjarnold•about 3 hours ago

Yep, status page was certainly all green when I started noticing it.

seabrookmx•about 3 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).

thesh4d0w•about 3 hours ago

It took at least 5 minutes, closer to 10. I think the outage is so bad, it got pushed fast.

delf•about 1 hour 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/

ChrisArchitect•about 1 hour ago

Incident link(s):

https://status.gitlab.com/pages/incident/5b36dc6502d06804c08...

lampcord•about 1 hour ago

Another day, another reminder why we self-host our GitLab instance. Cloud convenience always has these kinds of trade-offs.

zer0x4d•about 1 hour ago

We self host ours too. 100% uptime ;)

TZubiri•about 1 hour ago

what host are you using that gets 100%uptime? A hyperscaler like AWS?

firesteelrain•3 minutes ago

VMWare Cloud Foundation with Dell R7725s

mitxela•5 minutes ago

Just means it hasn't crashed yet.

zer0x4d•30 minutes ago

I run it on Digital Ocean but AWS should be fine too.

nabeards•about 3 hours ago

Just went to push code and found this out.

nicholasjarnold•about 3 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.

smalltorch•about 3 hours ago

Gasp! immediately builds a complete git alternative to never expirence a single second of downtime ever again

JonChesterfield•about 2 hours ago

Well, git is already distributed, so you could use _any other computer_ instead of gitlab.com...

smalltorch•about 2 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.

gblosser•about 1 hour ago

or go back to Mercurial...

Do you remember Mercurial?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

mitxela•4 minutes ago

Isn't it just git but harder to use?

lemonish97•about 2 hours ago

Right, on to another alternative now

tibbon•25 minutes ago

Seems they can compete with GitHub after all! /s

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