GitLab outage history and postmortems
Developer tools · San Francisco, US · no public status feed · last 117mo ago
Incidents
1 on file| Started | Incident | Impact | Root cause | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3123:00 UTC | Primary database data accidentally deleted, 18-hour restore | critical | Operator | 19h |
About GitLab
GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc. It is available as either a free software "Community" edition or a proprietary software "Enterprise" edition.
The last year, day by day
Downtime, added up
GitLab: 0m weighted downtime in range, category median 1h 50m.
0 incidents, 0 major or critical, 0m of incident time (0m major or critical, 0m partial), longest none, implied uptime 100%, between Jun 28, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026.
Postmortems
| Started | Incident | Impact | Root cause | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3123:00 UTC | Primary database data accidentally deleted, 18-hour restore | critical | Operator | 19h |
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Questions
Is GitLab down right now?
Check GitLab's own status page at https://status.gitlab.com for the live state. This page shows GitLab's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2017-01-31: "Primary database data accidentally deleted, 18-hour restore".
How often does GitLab have outages?
GitLab posted 0 incidents in the last 90 days and 0 in the last year, 0 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted Ongoing.
When was GitLab's last major outage?
2017-01-31: "Primary database data accidentally deleted, 18-hour restore", lasting 19h.
What usually causes GitLab incidents?
Where GitLab explained the cause, the most common was operator action (1 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.
Sources: vendors' own status pages, published postmortems and SEC 8-K Item 1.05 filings, read daily. Times as reported. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.