GitLab Outage

https://status.gitlab.com/

Comments

davbSep 24, 2026, 11:28 PM
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).
deckar01Sep 24, 2026, 11:32 PM
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.
physicallyIllfrSep 25, 2026, 12:12 AM
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.
TZubiriSep 25, 2026, 1:05 AM
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

b0afc375b5Sep 24, 2026, 11:18 PM
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_framerSep 24, 2026, 11:21 PM
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...

nicholasjarnoldSep 24, 2026, 11:23 PM
Yep, status page was certainly all green when I started noticing it.
seabrookmxSep 24, 2026, 11:24 PM
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).

kunleySep 25, 2026, 11:10 AM
It was updated at least 5 minutes after I noticed the outage first. Guess it's typical organisation lag
thesh4d0wSep 24, 2026, 11:20 PM
It took at least 5 minutes, closer to 10. I think the outage is so bad, it got pushed fast.
ChrisArchitectSep 25, 2026, 1:15 AM
Incident link(s):

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

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

delfSep 25, 2026, 12:37 AM
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/

PhilippGilleSep 25, 2026, 10:50 AM
It would be nice to disclose that you're the creator of the tool which you are promoting here.
delfSep 25, 2026, 1:50 PM
Will do it going forward. Thank you for the feedback!
hk1337Sep 25, 2026, 1:33 AM
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.
mitxelaSep 25, 2026, 2:02 AM
You don't really need one of these systems. You can just host git.
hk1337Sep 25, 2026, 8:04 AM
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.
theplumberSep 25, 2026, 8:25 AM
Maybe Sam or Dario is playing hide and seek again with the agents….
lampcordSep 25, 2026, 12:40 AM
Another day, another reminder why we self-host our GitLab instance. Cloud convenience always has these kinds of trade-offs.
zer0x4dSep 25, 2026, 12:47 AM
We self host ours too. 100% uptime ;)
TZubiriSep 25, 2026, 1:13 AM
what host are you using that gets 100%uptime? A hyperscaler like AWS?
mitxelaSep 25, 2026, 2:02 AM
Just means it hasn't crashed yet.
zer0x4dSep 25, 2026, 1:37 AM
I run it on Digital Ocean but AWS should be fine too.
firesteelrainSep 25, 2026, 2:03 AM
VMWare Cloud Foundation with Dell R7725s
gib444Sep 25, 2026, 6:36 AM
How do you do upgrades?
nabeardsSep 24, 2026, 11:13 PM
Just went to push code and found this out.
nicholasjarnoldSep 24, 2026, 11:15 PM
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.

smalltorchSep 24, 2026, 11:19 PM
Gasp! immediately builds a complete git alternative to never expirence a single second of downtime ever again
JonChesterfieldSep 25, 2026, 12:10 AM
Well, git is already distributed, so you could use _any other computer_ instead of gitlab.com...
smalltorchSep 25, 2026, 12:28 AM
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.
gblosserSep 25, 2026, 1:04 AM
or go back to Mercurial...

Do you remember Mercurial?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

mitxelaSep 25, 2026, 2:02 AM
Isn't it just git but harder to use?
lemonish97Sep 25, 2026, 12:31 AM
Right, on to another alternative now
Towaway69Sep 25, 2026, 1:04 PM
Back to GitHub /s
tibbonSep 25, 2026, 1:42 AM
Seems they can compete with GitHub after all! /s
Towaway69Sep 25, 2026, 1:05 PM
Reminds me of LibreOffice cloning the bugs of Office because folks relied on those bugs being there ...