GitHub Copilot incident
Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
Started
October 12, 2026 at 12:21 PM UTC
Duration
7h 54m
Resolved
October 12, 2026 at 08:16 PM UTC
Updates timeline
- Investigating
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Issues and Pull Requests
- Investigating
Users may experience issues loading the Actions tab UI, interacting with the Checks API, queueing new Actions runs, creating and updating issues, and requesting PR reviews, including via REST and GraphQL APIs.
- Investigating
We have a mitigation in progress and are monitoring for recovery. Users may also experience delayed web notifications as we mitigate.
- Investigating
Pull Requests is operating normally.
- Investigating
Our initial mitigation was not fully successful, and users may still experience delays and errors with Actions, issues and projects, and notifications are delayed. We're continuing to investigate the root cause and work on additional mitigations.
- Investigating
The degradation affecting Issues has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- Investigating
The degradation affecting Actions has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- Investigating
We have mitigated the issues with Actions, issues, and projects, and have a mitigation in progress to address the delay with notifications.
- Investigating
We have successfully applied a mitigation for notifications, and notifications have resumed but will continue to be delayed as we work through a backlog.
- Investigating
Notifications have resumed but will continue to be delayed as we work through a backlog.
- Investigating
Web and email notifications continue to be delayed as we work through a backlog of notifications.
- Investigating
Web and email notifications will be delayed for 1 more hour as we are close to completing the backlog of notifications.
- Resolved
This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.
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