Incident with Actions and Pages

tux3

Over the last 90 days the status page ( https://www.githubstatus.com/ ) shows around 2 nines of uptime for most services.

mimsee

Apparently they deleted the Github Actions account as it shows up as ghost in PR comments.

cebert

I think we should start betting if GitHub will be down on Polymarkets or something at this point.

cpfohl

Wasn’t my fault this time! I haven’t started work yet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237377

nivekney

This is outrageous. Someone go create a Polymarket.

bouk

Insane, we have to come up with contingency plans now for long-duration GitHub outages because we can't safely do deployments. For a service we're paying thousands of $ per year for even though we host runners ourselves...

mohsen1

oh man spent so much time trying to debug what's going on. I have a complex setup with GitHub Actions and self hosted runners so I thought it's something broken in my CI setup

altern8

Why do they go down so often? Is it true that the reason is that they've incorporated too much AI without human review?

a10c

My action failed with "Unexpected error fetching GitHub release for tag refs/heads/master: HttpError: Sorry. Your account was suspended" Which certainly made me shit myself, briefly.

rvz

Another outage at GitHub with actions and pages not working thanks to the AI agents Copilot and Tay.ai creating more issues. Last time this happened was 6 days ago. [0] This time today it was caused by friendly fire by the automatic suspension of the GitHub Actions bot which is now a "Ghost" user. Since there is no CEO of GitHub to contact it we are just going to see more [1] of this again. You might need to push a critical change soon, but now you cannot. You won't get any of these issues if you self hosted as I said 6 years ago...[2] [0] https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/g6ffrm0rfvz9 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085501 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

throwatdem12311

When is it up?

baalimago

Hey at least Copilot AI Model Providers have 100% uptime, so there's that

sh-cho

'Degraded' should be banned in status pages. It sounds just irresponsible, like "Yeah, it can be slow or something sometime. Whatever. Who cares"

kminehart

Are there any GitHub Actions-compatible CI services out there that don't rely on their infrastructure? I know of depot's but no others; are these resilient to these outages or do they still lose functionality? I imagine the latter but I don't know.

efromvt

Incredible how reliable the heuristic of "something seems off - probably github being down" has gotten these days

sylware

microsoft github should work at restoring interop with noscript/basic HTML browsers...

couAUIA

LoL they added "Copilot AI Model Providers" in githubstatus and it has 100% up time. Thanks for pointing out that nobody is using that thing

chocrates

Someone said GitHub is racing to the mythical "zero nines of availability" and I love it

pistoriusp

Whilst you're waiting for it to come back, try out AGENT-CI (which is a project I built.), which runs GitHub Actions on your machine: https://agent-ci.dev . (Open source, etc.) No, it's not like "act," because it uses the standard Github runner, the difference is that the control plane is an emulation of api.github.com, because of this we can do all kinds of nice things: Caching in ~0 ms. Pause on failure, so you can let your AI agent fix it and retry without pushing.

gib444

List of things "DoS"d by AI: - GitHub - Hiring budgets - RAM (/personal computing in general) - Electricity - Media/Content - Truth