# GitHub Copilot: Degradation in repos contents API

> GitHub Copilot status incident “Degradation in repos contents API” on 2026-09-04: impact minor (vendor’s label), 21 min, 2 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/r05vk75c594j
Last updated: 2026-09-04T22:23:34Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-09-04 22:02 UTC · Resolved: 2026-09-04 22:23 UTC · Duration: 21 min
- Updates: 2
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/vhmsw2rhdcgv](https://stspg.io/vhmsw2rhdcgv)
- [Company: GitHub Copilot](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-09-04 22:02 UTC: We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
- **resolved** 2026-09-04 22:23 UTC: On September 4, 2026, between approximately 21:45 and 22:07 UTC, some users experienced errors and elevated latency for repository operations. The incident was fully resolved at 22:23 UTC. The cause was a capacity change that spread one of our clusters across additional availability zones; our zone-aware traffic routing kept sending requests to the original zone for performance, overloading a small set of servers while the new capacity sat idle. We resolved the incident by reverting the change and letting traffic rebalance. We are improving per-zone capacity guarantees, cross-zone load-shedding, and pre-production testing of multi-zone changes to prevent recurrence.

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub Copilot, started 2026-09-04 22:02 UTC, resolved after 21 min, 2 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/r05vk75c594j
- Citation: GitHub Copilot, “Degradation in repos contents API” (2026-09-04 22:02 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/r05vk75c594j (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub Copilot: Degradation in repos contents API (2026-09-04)](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/r05vk75c594j)`


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