# GitHub Copilot: Disruption with some GitHub services

- Impact (vendor’s label): critical
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-07-16 09:13 UTC · Resolved: 2026-07-16 12:20 UTC · Duration: 3.1 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/d35pngcy6sb9](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/d35pngcy6sb9)
- [Company: GitHub Copilot](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2026-07-16 12:20 UTC: On July 16, 2026, between 08:50 UTC and 09:50 UTC, the GitHub MCP Server’s web\_search tool experienced elevated failures. The average error rate was 42% and peaked at 82% of requests to the tool. Other GitHub MCP Server tools were unaffected. This was caused by degradation at a downstream web search provider. The incident was mitigated when the downstream provider recovered, after which we confirmed that the tool’s success rate had returned to normal. We are improving the tool’s resilience and failure handling to reduce the customer impact and duration of similar incidents.

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


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