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GitHub Copilot: Incident updated: Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users

Incident updateNormal progress (rule, 100%)Changed www.githubstatus.com (opens in new tab)
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AddedUpdateinvestigating#1
Before: not present
After: We are continuing to observe high rates of 504 errors for anonymous requests. We are continuing to work on mitigation. Logged-in users and authenticated requests are unaffected.

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Incident updated: Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users on GitHub Copilot’s status page, changed 2026-11-09 08:23 UTC (change 5 of 7).

Title
Incident updated: Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users
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GitHub Copilot
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URL
https://rewindex.com/change/r82f08e8369f7c4

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