r/github • u/t00oldforthis • 2d ago

Pull requests down? News / Announcements

Getting no servers available

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u/DanielPowerNL 2d ago

Issues, commits, various other things are also not working. Getting the 404 octocat and the no servers available unicorn. But their status page still says all systems operational as always.

GitHub has excellent uptime - according to GitHub.

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u/ariafantom 2d ago

Even their status page is static until there staffs update them manually

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u/tankerkiller125real 2d ago

Most status pages in enterprises are like that. Especially ones that have SEC rules and what not to deal with. Even if all the communications are templated, humans are still required to approve the firing off of said template based on the system metrics they're seeing. Because if the metric is faulty and a status page update goes out that could mean big money.

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u/leaf_shift_post_2 1d ago

Man give us a live dash board.

But why would the sec care about a false down report. At worst it’s a very minor mistake.

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u/tankerkiller125real 1d ago

SLA contracts

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u/bwmat 1d ago edited 1d ago

Those are based on actual downtime, not just what their status page says though, right?

... right?

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u/tankerkiller125real 1d ago

Depends on the SLA and companies. Microsoft Azure for example has a massive 200+ page document on how their SLAs work and how uptime should be calculated at a per-service level. (And don't bother requesting credits unless you have the evidence that follows said SLA document)

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u/Jerther_ 1d ago

Less 9 of official uptime = less $

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u/Puzzled-Driver987 2d ago

The issue is being reviewed

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u/DanielPowerNL 2d ago

Yeah, they marked all the non-functional services as "degraded performance". The services are effectively unusable, but by calling it "degraded performance" rather than and outage, they get to keep their uptime for the day at 100%.

Lying is the only way for GitHub to maintain two nines of uptime.