2020-09-30: Some Git Pull Mirroring Jobs not being executed
Summary
2020-09-30: Git Pull Mirroring Jobs not being executed
We are receiving reports of some Git pull mirroring jobs not executing, or executing sporadically. In addition, we have an alert for The sidekiq queue being particularly large (though this might be normal)
Timeline
All times UTC.
2020-09-30
- 16:59 - Michael Lussier messages #production slack channel mentioning tickets about pull mirrors "stuck" with "updating" status https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C101F3796/p1601485151286300
- 23:27 - ggillies receives a non-paging alert for "Large number of overdue pull mirror jobs" https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C12RCNXK5/p1601508470184600
- 23:40 - ggillies declares incident in Slack using
/incident declare
command.
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Incident Review
Summary
- Service(s) affected:
- Team attribution:
- Minutes downtime or degradation:
Metrics
Customer Impact
- Who was impacted by this incident? (i.e. external customers, internal customers)
- What was the customer experience during the incident? (i.e. preventing them from doing X, incorrect display of Y, ...)
- How many customers were affected?
- If a precise customer impact number is unknown, what is the estimated potential impact?
Incident Response Analysis
- How was the event detected?
- How could detection time be improved?
- How did we reach the point where we knew how to mitigate the impact?
- How could time to mitigation be improved?
Post Incident Analysis
- How was the root cause diagnosed?
- How could time to diagnosis be improved?
- Do we have an existing backlog item that would've prevented or greatly reduced the impact of this incident?
- Was this incident triggered by a change (deployment of code or change to infrastructure. If yes, have you linked the issue which represents the change?)?
5 Whys
Lessons Learned
Corrective Actions
Guidelines
Edited by Graeme Gillies