2025-12-05: Gitlab Search API isn't available for ChatOps

Gitlab Search API isn't available for ChatOps (Severity 3)

Problem: GitLab Search API returned 408 timeout errors for all requests with 'scope=blobs' due to database statement timeouts.

Impact: All API users and systems trying to search code blobs using 'scope=blobs' were receiving 408 timeout errors. Other search types, like 'issues' and 'commits', and the Web UI search were not affected. This interrupted a subset of customer workflows and integrations relying on code blob searches.

Causes: A recent deployment that added fork and archive filters to the Search API caused database statement timeouts for API requests with 'scope=blobs'.

Response strategy: We reverted the code change that introduced the issue. After the revert was deployed, the Search API returned to normal and all affected workflows recovered.

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This ticket was created to track INC-6130, by incident.io 🔥