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Depot vs Harness: which is more reliable? (2026)
Depot is more reliable than Harness, scoring 85.5 vs 56.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Depot reported 9 incidents and Harness reported 25, with effective uptime of 99.89% and 99.04% respectively. Depot resolves incidents faster on average (1h 6m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Depot | Harness |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 85.5 | 56.4 |
| Rank (code hosting & CI platforms) | #2 | #7 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.89% | 99.04% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 9 | 25 |
| Partial / major outages | 4 | 4 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 6m | 4h 1m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Depot and Harness differ
- Harness reported 2.8× as many incidents as Depot over the last 90 days (25 vs 9).
- Depot fixes problems faster: 1h 6m on average, against 4h 1m for Harness (3.7× quicker).
- Depot's longest outage on record lasted 1h 55m (Oct 8, 2026); Harness's lasted 8h 28m (Sep 14, 2026).
90-day uptime
Depot
Harness
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Depot incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 3h 2m
Affected: us-east-1, Depot CI
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 1h 55m
Affected: us-east-1, Depot CI
- Degraded performanceOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 1h 41m
Slow disk I/O for US container builds
Affected: us-east-1
- Degraded performanceOct 5, 2026 · resolved in 1h 48m
Slow disk I/O for EU container builds
Affected: eu-central-1
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 19m
Elevated queue times for Sandboxes and Depot CI Jobs
Affected: Depot CI
- Partial outageSep 20, 2026 · resolved in 6m
Affected: us-east-1, Depot CI
Recent Harness incidents
- InformationalOct 28, 2026 · resolved in <1m
Intermittent CI Pipeline using VM Runner slowness and errors
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 2h 32m
We are currently seeing delegate selection issue for VM infra executions
Affected: Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Self Hosted Runners
- Degraded performanceOct 19, 2026 · resolved in 35m
Affected: Continuous Delivery - Next Generation (CDNG), Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Self Hosted Runners, Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Mac Cloud Builds, Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Windows Cloud Builds, Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Linux Cloud Builds, Security Testing Orchestration (STO) +2 more
- Degraded performanceOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 11m
Degraded performance in UI execution graph in prod3
Affected: Continuous Delivery - Next Generation (CDNG)
- Degraded performanceOct 13, 2026 · resolved in 3h 23m
Prod1: Intermittent issue with IACM stages in some pipelines
Affected: Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM)
- Degraded performanceOct 12, 2026 · resolved in <1m
Harness CI Cloud build issues when accessing Maven Central
Affected: Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Mac Cloud Builds, Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Mac Cloud Builds, Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Mac Cloud Builds, Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Windows Cloud Builds, Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Mac Cloud Builds, Continuous Integration Enterprise(CIE) - Mac Cloud Builds +12 more
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