Companies / ai
GitHub Copilot
1,157incidents since 2016-11-01
212major or critical
68in the last 90 days
0silently edited or deleted
Recent notable changes
| When (UTC) | Change | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Critical incident: Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests GitHub reported a critical incident affecting Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests, opened at 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC and resolved at 2026-10-07 18:04 UTC (47 min). Actual write-operation disruption occurred from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, recurring from an earlier outage with the same root cause; mitigations were applied. | Major incident | |
| Critical incident: Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions GitHub reported critical write-operation failures affecting Git Operations, Pull Requests, Issues, Actions, API, webhooks and authentication. Incident metadata lists start and resolution at 2026-10-07 16:25 UTC (computed duration: 0 min), while the vendor described two outage windows totaling about 19 minutes. GitHub reported recovery and an identified root cause, without specifying the cause. | Major incident | |
| Critical incident: Several services are degraded GitHub reported a critical outage affecting Pull Requests, Webhooks and other services, with approximately 1.16 million failed requests. The incident started at 2026-10-06 19:57 UTC and resolved at 2026-10-06 23:40 UTC, lasting 3 h 43 min. Enterprise migrations remained paused after other services recovered; GitHub reported deploying a mitigation. | Major incident | |
| Major incident: Disruption with some GitHub services GitHub reported a major degradation affecting organization and enterprise billing, licensing, and settings pages, with slow loads, timeouts, and errors. The incident started at 2026-10-05 23:47 UTC, lasted 1 h 44 min, and was resolved at 2026-10-06 01:32 UTC; GitHub cited a networking failure and reported deploying a mitigation. | Major incident | |
| Critical incident: Incident with Actions GitHub reported critical Actions and Pages degradation starting 2026-10-05 19:11 UTC, resolved at 2026-10-05 22:49 UTC (3 h 37 min). GitHub-hosted runner jobs were delayed or failed; 26.5% did not start within five minutes. GitHub applied mitigations, cleared queued jobs, and reported both services operating normally. | Major incident | |
| Critical incident: Copilot Code Review is unable to complete reviews GitHub Copilot reported a critical Code Review outage starting 2026-09-28 21:16 UTC, resolved at 2026-09-28 22:08 UTC (51 min). Approximately 70% of requested reviews failed across all environments; failed reviews were not automatically retried, so users needed to re-request them from their pull requests. GitHub attributed the issue to a dependent-service change and reported a rollback underway. | Major incident | |
| Major incident: Degradation with Gemini 3.8 Flash GitHub Copilot reported major degraded availability for Gemini 3.8 Flash starting 2026-09-16 07:20 UTC, resolved at 2026-09-16 17:48 UTC (10 h 27 min). Requests failed at an average rate of 6.4% due to a capacity issue; other models were unaffected, and users could switch models or use 'Auto'. | Major incident | |
| Critical incident: Incident with several GitHub Services GitHub reported critical degraded availability affecting Actions, API Requests, Issues, Pages and Pull Requests from 2026-09-13 09:16 UTC to resolution at 2026-09-13 10:44 UTC (1 h 28 min). Database replication delays on collab increased authorization and system-wide errors; GitHub reduced cluster load through internal load-shedding and observed recovery. | Major incident | |
| Major incident: Disruption with Copilot Code Review GitHub reported a major Copilot code review outage: affected reviews failed to complete or post comments. Tracked from 2026-09-04 20:39 UTC to 2026-09-04 22:26 UTC (1 h 47 min), the final report places failures from 20:04 UTC. An authentication-permissions change blocked review submissions to the GitHub API; reverting it restored service. | Major incident | |
| Critical incident: Incident with Copilot AI Model Providers GitHub reported a critical degradation affecting Kimi K3 in Copilot products and IDE surfaces, with elevated error rates; no other models were impacted. The incident started at 2026-08-27 10:04 UTC and was resolved at 2026-08-27 12:12 UTC, lasting 2 h 8 min. GitHub attributed it to an upstream provider issue, resolved through the provider’s mitigation. | Major incident |
Full GitHub Copilot change timeline, with diffs →
Status incident history
GitHub Copilot status incidents per year
Data table
| Year | Incidents | Major/critical |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | 2 |
| 2017 | 49 | 6 |
| 2018 | 52 | 6 |
| 2019 | 40 | 1 |
| 2020 | 70 | 5 |
| 2021 | 86 | 15 |
| 2022 | 123 | 19 |
| 2023 | 164 | 23 |
| 2024 | 124 | 26 |
| 2025 | 199 | 36 |
| 2026 | 244 | 73 |
Incidents per month, last 36 months
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Data table
| Month | Impact | Incidents |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-10 | major | 1 |
| 2023-10 | minor | 6 |
| 2023-11 | major | 1 |
| 2023-11 | minor | 8 |
| 2023-12 | major | 2 |
| 2023-12 | minor | 8 |
| 2024-01 | major | 4 |
| 2024-01 | minor | 5 |
| 2024-02 | major | 2 |
| 2024-02 | minor | 7 |
| 2024-03 | major | 2 |
| 2024-03 | minor | 6 |
| 2024-04 | major | 5 |
| 2024-04 | minor | 13 |
| 2024-05 | minor | 11 |
| 2024-06 | major | 2 |
| 2024-06 | minor | 6 |
| 2024-07 | major | 3 |
| 2024-07 | minor | 17 |
| 2024-08 | major | 1 |
| 2024-08 | minor | 10 |
| 2024-09 | major | 3 |
| 2024-09 | minor | 7 |
| 2024-09 | none | 1 |
| 2024-10 | major | 1 |
| 2024-10 | minor | 3 |
| 2024-11 | major | 1 |
| 2024-11 | minor | 6 |
| 2024-12 | major | 2 |
| 2024-12 | minor | 6 |
| 2025-01 | major | 3 |
| 2025-01 | minor | 9 |
| 2025-01 | none | 1 |
| 2025-02 | major | 2 |
| 2025-02 | minor | 14 |
| 2025-03 | major | 2 |
| 2025-03 | minor | 14 |
| 2025-03 | none | 1 |
| 2025-04 | major | 4 |
| 2025-04 | minor | 13 |
| 2025-05 | major | 3 |
| 2025-05 | minor | 14 |
| 2025-05 | none | 2 |
| 2025-06 | major | 3 |
| 2025-06 | minor | 14 |
| 2025-06 | none | 2 |
| 2025-07 | major | 1 |
| 2025-07 | minor | 15 |
| 2025-08 | major | 3 |
| 2025-08 | minor | 9 |
| 2025-09 | major | 3 |
| 2025-09 | minor | 13 |
| 2025-10 | major | 4 |
| 2025-10 | minor | 17 |
| 2025-10 | none | 1 |
| 2025-11 | major | 3 |
| 2025-11 | minor | 13 |
| 2025-11 | none | 1 |
| 2025-12 | major | 5 |
| 2025-12 | minor | 8 |
| 2025-12 | none | 2 |
| 2026-01 | major | 3 |
| 2026-01 | minor | 22 |
| 2026-02 | major | 7 |
| 2026-02 | minor | 30 |
| 2026-03 | major | 6 |
| 2026-03 | minor | 24 |
| 2026-03 | none | 2 |
| 2026-04 | critical | 3 |
| 2026-04 | major | 7 |
| 2026-04 | minor | 17 |
| 2026-05 | critical | 8 |
| 2026-05 | major | 2 |
| 2026-05 | minor | 9 |
| 2026-05 | none | 3 |
| 2026-06 | critical | 4 |
| 2026-06 | major | 2 |
| 2026-06 | minor | 15 |
| 2026-06 | none | 2 |
| 2026-07 | critical | 6 |
| 2026-07 | major | 8 |
| 2026-07 | minor | 11 |
| 2026-07 | none | 1 |
| 2026-08 | critical | 5 |
| 2026-08 | major | 3 |
| 2026-08 | minor | 18 |
| 2026-08 | none | 1 |
| 2026-09 | critical | 2 |
| 2026-09 | major | 2 |
| 2026-09 | minor | 10 |
| 2026-10 | critical | 4 |
| 2026-10 | major | 1 |
| 2026-10 | minor | 6 |
Silent edits
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Pricing, trust and legal pages
Page snapshot history
Data table
| Date | Page | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-17 | Pricing | baseline |
| 2026-10-17 | Trust / security | baseline |
| Page | URL | Versions | Last changed | Last fetched OK | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | github.com/features/copilot/plans | 1 | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-17 | none yet |
| Trust / security | github.com/trust | 1 | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-17 | none yet |
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Incident timeline
Latest 100 of 1,157 incidents. Full list: last 90 days · JSON · Markdown