# GitLab: Incident silently edited: Intermittent 500 on GitLab.com

**Summary:** GitLab renamed the incident from “Intermittent 503 on GitLab.com” to “Intermittent 500 on GitLab.com,” changing the HTTP error code identified in the title. The edit provides no additional impact, timing, cause or fix details. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Part of an outage event

- [Google Cloud europe-west2 outage, Oct 20, 2026: 19 vendors, 19 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2026-10-20-google-cloud-europe-west2)
- This incident started in the same window without naming Google Cloud (timing only, not evidence of a link). (timing only, posted +1 h vs Google Cloud’s own post)

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["Google Cloud europe-west2<br/>posted 06:08 UTC"]:::root
  before["Posted before Google Cloud did<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed Google Cloud<br/>JFrog"]:::blames
  root --> before
  h1["Within an hour<br/>4 vendors, 4 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Aiven, Northflank, Elastic Cloud, dbt Labs"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>4 vendors, 4 blamed Google Cloud<br/>MongoDB Atlas, Sourcegraph, CockroachDB, ClickHouse Cloud"]:::blames
  root --> h4
  later["Later<br/>2 vendors, 1 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Grafana Cloud, Confluent"]:::blames
  root --> later
  me["GitLab (this incident)<br/>posted +1 h"]:::me
  root -.->|"same window"| me
```

_Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider; a link means one incident named another vendor, not a confirmed cause._

- Kind: Silent edit · Label: Wording only (typesafe/jev-1.13-20260917)
- Changed: 2026-10-20 07:33 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-20 07:33 UTC
- [Source: https://status.gitlab.com/pages/incident/5b36dc6502d06804c08349f7/6ad7137040f91004ed0e9fdf](https://status.gitlab.com/pages/incident/5b36dc6502d06804c08349f7/6ad7137040f91004ed0e9fdf)
- [Company: GitLab](https://rewindex.com/company/gitlab.md)
- Versions: before incident\_version:188/6ad7137040f91004ed0e9fdf@0369d8976417 → after incident\_version:188/6ad7137040f91004ed0e9fdf@5cf7d4e92a00
- Change 2 of 4 for this incident

Incident page (full timeline): [Intermittent 500 on GitLab.com](https://rewindex.com/company/gitlab/incidents/6ad7137040f91004ed0e9fdf.md)
## What changed

**1. Changed: Title**

```diff
- Intermittent 503 on GitLab.com
+ Intermittent 500 on GitLab.com
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-20 07:08 UTC | [Major incident: Intermittent 503 on GitLab.com](https://rewindex.com/change/iffdceee5b1c0d0.md) | outage |
| 2026-10-20 07:33 UTC | Incident silently edited: Intermittent 500 on GitLab.com (this change) | Wording only |
| 2026-10-20 07:43 UTC | [Incident updated: Intermittent 500 on GitLab.com](https://rewindex.com/change/rd18b3eebc7744b.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 10:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Intermittent 500 on GitLab.com](https://rewindex.com/change/r56d323a5bdb3c1.md) | Normal progress |

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/rb55fb8ea7d6dae · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/change/rb55fb8ea7d6dae.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/changes/rb55fb8ea7d6dae · Generated 2026-10-21T02:15:19.392Z