GitHub Major Service Outage
status.github.comAs a weekend project, I created a service to monitor the status of many services (Github included) in one single page http://isserviceup.com/ . You can register with your Github account and star the services you use to receive notifications through Slack when their status change. It's all free and open source, let me know your thoughts!
p.s. I just posted a Show HN here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13117856
You're missing slack status (they're down right now).
isServiceUp looks great.
One suggestion, bubble to the top any services that isn't operational ... that way you can easily see at the top all servics which are down.
by the way, here the link to the github repository https://github.com/marcopaz/is-service-up
Got this when pushing a small change:
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (6/6), completed with 6 local objects.
remote: Unexpected system error after push was received.
remote: These changes may not be reflected on github.com!
remote: Your unique error code: 13f721d92e29fbb811443a19a44a49e0I also received this message when pushing. Didn't notice at first but I checked the repo and my chart and noticed neither had updated. It was a very spooky moment because I rely very heavily on Github.
Trello is down too. I wonder if there's a service they're both using that's the root of it.
Running my side project StatusGator, I have a good view of 200 different service status pages and there are about 20 services now showing down or warning notices.
A quick spot check seems most of those are related to GitHub, however. Often times when AWS or Heroku or similar hosting service posts downtime you can see 30% of the services I monitor go down at all once.
Long time StatusGator customer here. Great service.
I just signed up for an account. Looks good!
Some feedback:
- Great if there was more granularity for some services. Down/warning for all of AWS is not useful. Better if one could scope to region or even better region + service.
- The distinction between warn/down is not entirely clear. Also, it's not clear if it varies between services.
- Great with Slack integration!
- Instead of only selecting by drop-down or search, it would be great with a wall-like page with name + icon/logo, to make it easier to quickly find the service.
- Good with historic stats, makes it easier to choose between down/warn (to know how 'noisy'i it'll be).
Wow, thank you so much for the feedback. I'm often surprised how hard it is to extract honest, actionable feedback from people even with nice personal emails.
Some of these features are already in development!
You're welcome!
If you make a wall-like page for selecting services, I'd suggest this layout: https://www.dropbox.com/enterprise
Basically the logo in white against the primary-color of the brand. Very easy to scan and looks clean.
mind mentioning some of the bigger names?
Mailchimp was as well. Both Trello and Mailchimp reverse proxy through Akamai.
Github is on their own gear on their own netblock, but might be on the same IXP fabric with an Akamai POP.
https://www.akamai.com/us/en/solutions/intelligent-platform/...
Red is bad right?
I am more familiar with this map: http://map.norsecorp.com/
There is no DDoS going on right now.
This and parent commenter's link paint _completely_ different pictures - do either of you know why?
The Akamai link shows Europe red hot, with the UK at "~17% attack", whatever that means. Norse Corp link shows nothing of the sort, UK so negligible as to not even make the list.
That means 17% of traffic/attacks all around the globe right now is in the UK. There is nothing useful to understand with that information ^^
[Either traffic or attacks depending on which graphs you look at]
The graph I gave show current attacks in live. If there was a DDoS going you'd see a shittons of lines going toward a single location.
Makes sense right now since I would assume large chunks of that are video traffic and people are at home, netflixing, youtubing, et al.
Speaking of Akamai... Apple Music, the App Store, and Facetime are being flaky right now too. Apple Music has completely stopped working for me.
Maybe another DDOS dry run? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Not doing too bad of a job if this isn't their A game.
Maybe? http://downdetector.com/ if you look at the charts quite a few spiked around the same time.
Can't access- flagged as a 'fair use violation'. No details provided, first time I've been on this site. Any idea what's going on?
Never heard of that before, but it's loading fine for me. Maybe it's all the company logos tripping something you have on your computer or network?
trello is working ok for me at the moment - their status page seems to indicate its only certain locations affected. http://www.trellostatus.com/
I wonder how long it will take for changes I merged (using the web ui!) during this outage to propagate to the actual gh-pages website.
Where's GitHub hosted these days? Is their Rackspace footprint history?
aws + colo iirc.
Github.com is down for me, but traversing directly to my own repository works just fine
site is up for me, but:
remote: Unexpected system error after push was received. remote: These changes may not be reflected on github.com!
Same for me, website works but git pushes do not.
Github's status page shows past month uptime, but I would be interested in seeing past year. It seems to me that Github has had a couple of major outages recently. Then again, they stand out more than normal operation.
I wish they used statuspage.io or at least offered email notifications for the status.
If you use Slack, you can subscribe to the Github Status RSS feed from the DM page for slackbot, or even your own username by using:
/feed subscribe https://status.github.com/messages.rss
I got a "Major service outage" message about 30 minutes ago.
i learned this trick as well and now our "hosting-alerts" channel has RSS feeds from github,aws,google,heroku,ubuntu(security list) and quite a few more
statuspage.io sites have rss/atom feeds in the 'subscribe' options as well.
RSS seems to live on here
Neither of these are a simple "subscribe" button or even a fix, but some thoughts:
- They have an API you could quickly tap to write your own notifier: https://status.github.com/api
- They have a Twitter account that you could pair with IFTTT to send notifications: https://twitter.com/githubstatus
I received the StatusPage.io notification in Slack.
Ugh no wonder - my pushes haven't been showing up.