- Status page says
- Under maintenance since Oct 19
- Last 90 days
- 2 incidents, 2 major or critical
- Rewrites caught
- None so far
- Next deprecation
- None announced
Select a day to jump to its incidents below.
How RubyGems.org reports incidents
Not enough incidents to compare RubyGems.org with other vendors yet: a vendor needs 20 incidents in a year and 10 with full update detail (RubyGems.org has 6 and 32).
Provisional. Built nightly from every archived version of each incident, last on Oct 19. Compare all vendors
Dependencies
What RubyGems.org relies on and who relies on RubyGems.org, as observed in status-page incidents: who they blame, where they say they run, and who fails at the same time. Observed, not verified.
RubyGems.org depends on
| Provider | Evidence | Signal |
|---|---|---|
| Fastly | blamed in 2 incidents; together in 1 outage event “…levels and errors return to normal. The elevated 503 and 502 errors seem to be because of Fastly's ongoing incident. We are following along at https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj. This in…” incident | Strong |
Outage events: Fastly, Jun 8, 2021, Cloudflare, Jul 17, 2020 (timing).
Strong: same company, or blamed in two separate outages. Likely: blamed once, or named as hosting and failing together. Weak: listed as a subprocessor, integration-only, or failing together repeatedly without being named.
Changes and edits
Incidents RubyGems.org rewrote or removed, and notable changes to the pages we watch.
Struck in red is what RubyGems.org removed. Blue is what they added.
Wednesday, August 19
1 incident change
- MajorMajor incident
Friday, July 24
1 incident change
- MajorMajor incident
Monday, April 6
1 incident change
- MajorMajor incident
Thursday, February 12
1 incident change
- MajorMajor incident
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
1 incident change
- MajorMajor incident
Friday, July 17, 2020
1 incident change
- MajorMajor incident
Saturday, April 25, 2020
1 incident change
- CriticalCritical incident
Monday, February 24, 2020
1 incident change
- CriticalCritical incident
Thursday, January 31, 2019
1 incident change
- MajorMajor incident
Sunday, January 13, 2019
1 incident change
- CriticalCritical incident
Pricing and pages we watch
No pricing, trust or legal pages tracked for RubyGems.org.
Each change links to its diff: the changed passages with a few words of context, never a full copy of the page.
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Incidents
35 incidents since Nov 30, 2015, 14 of them major or critical. Maintenance is left out.
Per year, major and critical in amber:
2015: 2 incidents, 0 major or critical; 2016: 12 incidents, 4 major or critical; 2017: 3 incidents, 0 major or critical; 2019: 4 incidents, 2 major or critical; 2020: 4 incidents, 3 major or critical; 2021: 2 incidents, 1 major or critical; 2023: 1 incidents, 0 major or critical; 2025: 1 incidents, 0 major or critical; 2026: 6 incidents, 4 major or critical
Wednesday, August 19
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Major, 2 h 29 minMajor incident
Friday, July 24
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Major, 37 minMajor incident
Tuesday, May 12
1 incident
- No impact listed, 4 daysIncident, no impact listed
Monday, April 6
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Major, 30 minMajor incident
Tuesday, March 31
1 incident
- Minor, 1 h 1 minMinor incident
Thursday, February 12
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Major, 2 h 14 minMajor incident
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
1 incident
- Minor, 13 daysMinor incident
Thursday, May 11, 2023
1 incident
- No impact listed, 3 h 16 minIncident, no impact listed
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Major, 1 h 29 minMajor incident
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
1 incident
- Minor, 53 minMinor incident
Friday, July 17, 2020
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Major, 40 minMajor incident
Saturday, April 25, 2020
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Critical, 14 minCritical incident
Thursday, April 2, 2020
1 incident
- Minor, 29 h 19 minMinor incident
Monday, February 24, 2020
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Critical, 25 minCritical incident
Thursday, January 31, 2019
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Major, 33 minMajor incident
Sunday, January 13, 2019
2 incidents, 1 major or critical
- Minor, 6 h 50 minMinor incident
- Critical, 31 minCritical incident
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
1 incident
- Minor, 24 minMinor incident
Monday, December 25, 2017
1 incident
- Minor, 13 h 48 minMinor incident
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
2 incidents
- Minor, 1 h 9 minMinor incident
- No impact listed, under a minuteIncident, no impact listed
Monday, October 3, 2016
1 incident
- Minor, 2 h 59 minMinor incident
Monday, September 12, 2016
1 incident
- Minor, 9 h 47 minMinor incident
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Major, 5 h 22 minMajor incident
Monday, June 27, 2016
1 incident
- Minor, 3 h 16 minMinor incident
Friday, June 10, 2016
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Major, 27 minMajor incident
Monday, June 6, 2016
1 incident
- Minor, 2 h 14 minMinor incident
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Major, 2 h 19 minMajor incident
Saturday, April 30, 2016
1 incident
- Minor, 1 h 23 minMinor incident
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
1 incident
- Minor, 6 h 4 minMinor incident
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
1 incident, 1 major or critical
- Major, 1 h 34 minMajor incident
Saturday, February 13, 2016
1 incident
- No impact listed, 12 minIncident, no impact listed
Friday, February 5, 2016
1 incident
- Minor, 1 h 10 minMinor incident
Thursday, December 31, 2015
1 incident
- Minor, 1 h 26 minMinor incident
Monday, November 30, 2015
1 incident
- No impact listed, under a minuteIncident, no impact listed