Home
Uptime monitoring Observability AI monitoring Real User Monitoring Incident response Integrations & API AI assistants (MCP) Explore the platform →
Pricing
Uptime Calculator Cron Expression Builder HTTP Status Codes Is It Down? All free tools
Platform Blog About Contact FAQ Partners
Sign in Start free

GitHub Copilot incident

Incident with GitHub.com

Resolved after 7 h 35 min.

Started
Ended
Worst state
Major outage
On GitHub Copilot’s status page
Source
Components
API Requests, Actions, Copilot, Git Operations, Issues, Pages, Pull Requests, Webhooks

Live GitHub Copilot status Full GitHub Copilot outage history

Timeline

  1. GitHub Copilot status page · Reported Incident with GitHub.com
  2. GitHub Copilot status page · Investigating Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
  3. GitHub Copilot status page · Investigating We identified the problematic component and have taken corrective actions, but we are seeing residual impact across numerous services. We are continuing to apply additional mitigations and investigate the remaining impact.
  4. GitHub Copilot status page · Investigating Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
  5. GitHub Copilot status page · Investigating We identified the problematic component and have taken corrective actions, but we are seeing residual impact in the form of sporadic authentication failures. We are continuing to apply additional mitigations and investigate the remaining impact.
  6. GitHub Copilot status page · Investigating The degradation affecting Git Operations has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
  7. GitHub Copilot status page · Investigating API Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
  8. GitHub Copilot status page · Investigating API Requests is operating normally.
  9. GitHub Copilot status page · Investigating We are continuing to investigate sporadic authentication failures. We have partially disabled authentication token retries and have seen improvement, and we are monitoring impact before fully applying this mitigation.
  10. GitHub Copilot status page · Investigating We are continuing to investigate sporadic failures affecting Copilot authentication in some applications. Copilot usage via the GitHub CLI and GitHub App are unaffected.
  11. GitHub Copilot status page · Investigating Issues is operating normally.
  12. GitHub Copilot status page · Investigating We are continuing to apply mitigations to address sporadic Copilot authentication failures in some applications. We expect full recovery within the next 30 minutes. Copilot usage via the GitHub CLI and GitHub App are unaffected.
  13. GitHub Copilot status page · Resolved On August 17, 2026, from 13:28–21:15 UTC (7h 47m), GitHub.com experienced elevated errors and latency across Issues, Pull Requests, APIs, Actions, and Copilot. At peak, web/API error rates were approximately 20%, while archive and raw-content downloads reached approximately 50%. SAML/OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync were also affected, as well as Actions workflows in GHEC with Data Residency that depend on public workflow step definitions hosted on GitHub.com. Most services recovered by 16:36 UTC as our Central US datacenter recovered; Actions was degraded until approximately 18:03…

Cite this incident

Site Qwality, “Incident with GitHub.com,” Aug 17, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-copilot-down/incidents/copilot-202608171340/

Free to quote with a link to this page.