Outage in GitLab
Project and Group Deletions Delayed
Resolved Minor
August 17, 2026 - Started about 8 hours ago
- Lasted about 7 hours
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
On August 17, 2026, GitLab.com experienced a 6.6-hour incident where both immediate and scheduled project and group deletions failed to complete, leaving items visible past their expected deletion dates due to a background processing issue. A fix was identified but delayed by routine database maintenance before being deployed to production. Once live, deletion workers began processing the backlog queue, with full resolution expected once the queue cleared.
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.
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.
Components affected
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about 8 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 07:24AM
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.
about 7 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 08:18AM
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
about 7 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 08:56AM
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
about 6 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 09:16AM
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
about 6 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 09:37AM
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
about 6 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 09:58AM
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
about 5 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 10:22AM
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
about 5 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 10:44AM
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
about 5 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 11:02AM
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
about 4 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 11:20AM
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
about 3 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 12:37PM
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
about 2 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 01:24PM
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
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