Just noticed issues with Github handling requests and overall flakiness.
Getting a lot of status code 500 errors and decided to open this thread for status updates.
by omn1 on 9/6/22, 11:44 AM
Even though the status page (
https://www.githubstatus.com/) shows no issues, I'm still getting the occasional 500. It seems to be happening quite irregularly. They are possibly facing a lot of load.
by MattIPv4 on 9/6/22, 11:46 AM
Been running into many unicorns for the last few minutes, had a moment where it came back but seems to be down again. Even the unicorn image won't load on the unicorn page.
by qwertox on 9/6/22, 11:49 AM
I haven't pushed to GitHub in over a year. Now I'm setting up a new page on github.io with a new repo and GitHub goes 500 just when I try to push.
Those GitHub badges... they are as ugly as it gets.
by blueflow on 9/6/22, 11:54 AM
Do we need to create a HN post for every outage? It happens every other week.
by corford on 9/6/22, 1:35 PM
Yep, noticed it with comments on an issue (had timeouts while submitting but it eventually went through).
Now 30 mins later, i've refreshed the issue and see that my reply and the comment I was replying too (by another user) are both gone. Hopefully, it's eventually consistent and these comments will re-appear later.
by kid64 on 9/6/22, 11:50 AM
It's completely down for me. Status page says "all systems operational".
by fredrikaverpil on 9/6/22, 11:55 AM
The service seems very flaky right now. Even the unicorn isn't loading properly.
by sivapil on 9/8/22, 1:13 AM
Still getting this same error for past 10-12 hours. Tried in different times.
{
"code": 500,
"message": "internal server error"
}
Does anyone have luck? Any workaround to fix it?
by jmartens on 9/6/22, 3:41 PM
According to Metrist monitoring (disclosure: I work there), the errors were very rare, and didn't happen enough for us to call the product "down." Looks like around 1% of requests.
by WFHRenaissance on 9/6/22, 11:50 AM
I'm unicorning hard rn
by bilalq on 9/6/22, 1:04 PM
How reliable are Github cron action workflows? I set one up to run every 15 minutes recently, but it seems to actually be running closer to once an hour.
by view on 9/6/22, 12:21 PM
I'm trying to clone a repo at a whopping 6KB/s from Kenya.
EDIT: Seems to be a routing issue. I've enabled a UK VPN and it's working fine now.
by cherryblossom00 on 9/6/22, 11:56 AM
‘No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists.’
by bityard on 9/6/22, 11:52 AM
Interesting how outages like this seem to happen mostly on Monday^w Tuesday mornings.
by max23_ on 9/6/22, 11:49 AM
I get an error saying the action can't be performed when trying to star a repo.
by azeemh on 9/6/22, 12:04 PM
this is what happens when you sell important community infrastructure to M$FT
by adamscybot on 9/6/22, 11:56 AM
Its back
by alexandremonjol on 9/6/22, 12:05 PM
Seems to be back right ?
by isusmelj on 9/6/22, 11:50 AM
Same issue. Site is also very non-responsive.
by tambourine_man on 9/6/22, 12:05 PM
They’ve been having issues since yesterday.
by ohmahjong on 9/6/22, 11:55 AM
Time for some deep thumb-twiddling
by JSDevOps on 9/6/22, 2:03 PM
Yeah I noticed it earlier.
by planxty on 9/6/22, 11:48 AM
Seeing the same.
by maxcan on 9/6/22, 11:51 AM
Github outages are the bored engineer's equivalent of getting a surprise snow day when you were in school, full of unbridled joy.
For engaged, happy engineers its the equivalent of getting a surprise snow day when you are grown up and have to go dig your car out of the snow and its a normal day just with extra steps.
by wheelerof4te on 9/6/22, 12:13 PM
You still can use git, you just can't push the code.
Not a huge problem, unless it lasts for hours or gasp, days.