GitLab is currently experiencing a minor incident affecting Background Processing and GitLab agent server for Kubernetes (Google Compute Engine), which began 3h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating May 07, 2026, 03:44 PM UTC
We are investigating an issue background jobs being processed with delay. The problem is being tracked in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work_items/22017.
- identified May 07, 2026, 04:45 PM UTC
We have identified the cause of the background job processing delays. We are working to identify mitigating measures.
- monitoring May 07, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC
The background job backlog has mostly cleared and merge train delays should be significantly reduced. We're keeping this incident in monitoring while we implement performance improvements. More: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work_items/22017
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