# GitLab: Project and Group Deletions Delayed

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-08-17 07:24 UTC · Resolved: 2026-08-17 13:56 UTC · Duration: 6.5 h
- Updates: 13 · Affected components: Background Processing
- [Vendor status page: https://status.gitlab.com/pages/incident/5b36dc6502d06804c08349f7/6a82b7380d937e47612f7024](https://status.gitlab.com/pages/incident/5b36dc6502d06804c08349f7/6a82b7380d937e47612f7024)
- [Company: GitLab](https://rewindex.com/company/gitlab.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-08-17 07:24 UTC: We are currently investigating an issue affecting project and group deletions on GitLab.com. Immediate and scheduled deletion of projects and groups may not complete as expected. Projects and groups that have been scheduled for deletion may remain visible past their expected deletion date.
- **investigating** 2026-08-17 08:18 UTC: We are still investigating the issue affecting project and group deletions on GitLab.com. Immediate and scheduled deletion of projects and groups may not complete as expected. Projects and groups that have been scheduled for deletion may remain visible past their expected deletion date. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714
- **investigating** 2026-08-17 08:56 UTC: We are still investigating the issue affecting project and group deletions on GitLab.com. Immediate and scheduled deletion of projects and groups may not complete as expected. Projects and groups that have been scheduled for deletion may remain visible past their expected deletion date. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714
- **investigating** 2026-08-17 09:16 UTC: We are still investigating the issue affecting project and group deletions on GitLab.com. Immediate and scheduled deletion of projects and groups may not complete as expected. Ones that have been scheduled for deletion may remain visible past their expected deletion date. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714
- **investigating** 2026-08-17 09:37 UTC: We are still investigating the issue affecting project and group deletions on GitLab.com. Immediate and scheduled deletion of projects and groups may not complete as expected. Ones that have been scheduled for deletion may remain visible past their expected deletion date. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714
- **investigating** 2026-08-17 09:58 UTC: We are still investigating the issue affecting project and group deletions on GitLab.com. Immediate and scheduled deletion of projects and groups may not complete as expected. Ones that have been scheduled for deletion may remain visible past their expected deletion date. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714
- **investigating** 2026-08-17 10:22 UTC: We are still investigating the issue affecting project and group deletions on GitLab.com. Immediate and scheduled deletion of projects and groups may not complete as expected. Ones that have been scheduled for deletion may remain visible past their expected deletion date. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714
- **investigating** 2026-08-17 10:44 UTC: We are still investigating the issue affecting project and group deletions on GitLab.com. Immediate and scheduled deletion of projects and groups may not complete as expected. Ones that have been scheduled for deletion may remain visible past their expected deletion date. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714
- **investigating** 2026-08-17 11:02 UTC: We are still investigating the issue affecting project and group deletions on GitLab.com. Immediate and scheduled deletion of projects and groups may not complete as expected. Ones that have been scheduled for deletion may remain visible past their expected deletion date. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714
- **identified** 2026-08-17 11:20 UTC: We've identified a fix for the issue affecting project and group deletions on GitLab.com. Due to routine DB maintenance there will be a delay for when the fix will land in production. Given the current state of a known fix and the known delay, we will post status updates every hour for this incident. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714
- **identified** 2026-08-17 12:37 UTC: The fix is now in production and we're now working on processing the deletion queue via the deletion workers. The last 4 status updates were missing a "4" infrastructure work item link shared; this has been corrected on the status page. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714
- **monitoring** 2026-08-17 13:24 UTC: We're continuing to monitor the deletion queue being processed via the deletion workers. Delay of deletions and visibility of scheduled/queued deletions would be experienced until the queue is cleared. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714
- **resolved** 2026-08-17 13:56 UTC: All deletion queues have been processed for projects, we expect the same to continue for group deletions. This incident is moved to resolved. More information here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work\_items/22714

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-08-17 07:24 UTC: [Major incident: Project and Group Deletions Delayed](https://rewindex.com/change/idf48537f2b9d9c.md)


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