# GitHub Copilot: Elevated request latency

> GitHub Copilot status incident “Elevated request latency” on 2026-10-01: impact minor (vendor’s label), 20 min, 4 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/c8466lzvnmsv
Last updated: 2026-10-01T13:57:59Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-10-01 13:37 UTC · Resolved: 2026-10-01 13:57 UTC · Duration: 20 min
- Updates: 4
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/cz0ngh11q0tf](https://stspg.io/cz0ngh11q0tf)
- [Company: GitHub Copilot](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-10-01 13:37 UTC: We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
- **investigating** 2026-10-01 13:39 UTC: We are investigating recurrent periods of elevated latency affecting web requests. We’ll share updates as more information becomes available.
- **monitoring** 2026-10-01 13:51 UTC: The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- **resolved** 2026-10-01 13:57 UTC: On October 1, 2026, between 13:04 UTC and 13:34 UTC, users experienced two periods of slow page loads and intermittent request failures on GitHub.com. On average, the error rate was 0.52% and peaked at 6.13%. An unusually high volume of incoming traffic placed additional load on our traffic-handling infrastructure, delaying requests before they reached our application servers. Performance returned to normal as the traffic subsided, and we have since applied additional traffic filtering to protect against similar traffic. We are improving alerting for delays in our traffic-handling infrastructure and strengthening our automated traffic protections to reduce our time to detection and mitigation.

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub Copilot, started 2026-10-01 13:37 UTC, resolved after 20 min, 4 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/c8466lzvnmsv
- Citation: GitHub Copilot, “Elevated request latency” (2026-10-01 13:37 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/c8466lzvnmsv (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub Copilot: Elevated request latency (2026-10-01)](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/c8466lzvnmsv)`


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