GitHub Copilot incident
Disruption with Copilot Cloud services
Started
October 29, 2026 at 10:19 AM UTC
Duration
2h 29m
Resolved
October 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM UTC
Updates timeline
- Investigating
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- 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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