GitHub Copilot incident

Disruption with Copilot Cloud services

Minor Resolved Upstream link ↗

Started

October 29, 2026 at 10:19 AM UTC

Duration

2h 29m

Resolved

October 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM UTC

Updates timeline

  1. Investigating

    We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

  2. Investigating

    We are experiencing increased failures and latency on our agent sessions service, including creating and listing sessions. This can impact cloud based agent sessions on web, mobile, VS Code, CLI and the GitHub Copilot app.

  3. Investigating

    We continue to experience failure rates of 1-2% and increased latency on our agent sessions service, including creating and listing sessions. This can impact cloud based agent sessions on web, mobile, VS Code, CLI and the GitHub Copilot app.

  4. Investigating

    We continue to experience failure rates of 1-2% and increased latency on our agent sessions service, including creating and listing sessions. This can impact cloud based agent sessions on web, mobile, VS Code, CLI and the GitHub Copilot app. We are actively applying mitigations and monitoring for recovery.

  5. Monitoring

    The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  6. 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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