# GitHub Copilot: Elevated Request Latency for Write operations on github.com and api.github.com

> GitHub Copilot status incident “Elevated Request Latency for Write operations on github.com and api.github.com” on 2025-02-28: impact minor (vendor’s label), 43 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/36ftd36c921f
Last updated: 2025-02-28T06:55:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2025-02-28 06:12 UTC · Resolved: 2025-02-28 06:55 UTC · Duration: 43 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/36ftd36c921f](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/36ftd36c921f)
- [Company: GitHub Copilot](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2025-02-28 06:55 UTC: On February 28th, 2025, between 05:49 UTC and 06:55 UTC, a newly deployed background job caused increased load on GitHub’s primary database hosts, resulting in connection pool exhaustion. This led to degraded performance, manifesting as increased latency for write operations and elevated request timeout rates across multiple services. The incident was mitigated by halting execution of the problematic background job and disabling the feature flag controlling the job execution. To prevent similar incidents in the future, we are collaborating on a plan to improve our production signals to better detect and respond to query performance issues.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub Copilot, started 2025-02-28 06:12 UTC, resolved after 43 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/36ftd36c921f
- Citation: GitHub Copilot, “Elevated Request Latency for Write operations on github.com and api.github.com” (2025-02-28 06:12 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/36ftd36c921f (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub Copilot: Elevated Request Latency for Write operations on github.com and api.github.com (2025-02-28)](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/36ftd36c921f)`


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