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GitHub Copilot outage history

GitHub Copilot published 11 incidents on its official status page since Aug 3, 2026, 3 of them rated at the highest impact level. 2 were major or long incidents with their own pages; the biggest are listed first. Below them is every smaller incident, then our own 90 day check history.

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Biggest GitHub Copilot outages

Ranked by the official impact level, then by how long they lasted. Each has its own page with the cause, the fix time and every official update.

  1. Aug 17, 2026: Incident with GitHub.com 7 hours 36 min · rated "Critical" · shared with GitHub
  2. Aug 27, 2026: Incident with Copilot AI Model Providers 2 hours 8 min · rated "Critical"

Every smaller GitHub Copilot incident

Minor and short incidents from the GitHub status page, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.

September 2026

  • Sep 28, 2026, 21:16 UTC · Copilot Code Review is unable to complete reviews

    52 minutes · rated "Critical"

    "On September 28, 2026, between 19:23 UTC and 22:08 UTC the Copilot Code Review service was degraded and pull request reviews did not complete in all environments. On average, approximately 70% of requested reviews did not complete."

  • Sep 17, 2026, 20:59 UTC · Elevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by Copilot

    50 minutes · rated "Minor"

    "Between 20:26 and 21:17 UTC on September 17, 2026, GitHub Copilot experienced degradation affecting several GPT models, including GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.3-Codex, and GPT-6 Astra."

  • Sep 4, 2026, 20:39 UTC · Disruption with Copilot Code Review

    1 hour 48 min · rated "Major"

    "On September 4, 2026, between 20:04 and 22:26 UTC, GitHub Copilot code review experienced an increased failure rate. Affected pull request reviews failed to complete or post review comments."

  • Sep 3, 2026, 14:17 UTC · Incident with Grok Copilot AI Model Provider

    2 hours 54 min · rated "Minor"

    "Between 13:22 and 17:11 UTC on September 03, 2026, GitHub Copilot experienced degradation affecting several Grok models, including Grok 4.5 and Grok 4.6. Users encountered elevated error rates, but other models were not affected."

August 2026

  • Aug 31, 2026, 09:15 UTC · Elevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by Copilot

    42 minutes · rated "Minor"

    "Between 08:37 and 09:41 UTC on August 31, 2026, GitHub Copilot experienced degradation affecting several GPT models, including gpt-5.2, gpt-5.3-codex, gpt-5.4, gpt-5.4-mini, gpt-5.4-nano, and the gpt-5.6 family (Luna, Sol, and Terra)."

  • Aug 13, 2026, 14:43 UTC · Errors with the Fable 5 Model in Copilot

    1 hour 4 min · rated "Minor"

    "On August 13th, 2026, between approximately 14:06 and 15:47 UTC, the Copilot service experienced a degradation of the Claude Fable 5 model due to an issue with our upstream provider."

  • Aug 10, 2026, 20:27 UTC · Disruption with Copilot for access to some models

    1 hour 23 min · rated "Minor"

    "On August 10, 2026, between 19:48 UTC and 20:49 UTC, GitHub Copilot users saw an incomplete list of available models. During this window, the service could return as few as one model instead of the full catalog."

  • Aug 5, 2026, 11:38 UTC · Some Copilot Cloud Agent jobs not starting

    1 hour 21 min · rated "Minor"

    "On August 5, 2026, between 11:02 and 11:54 UTC, the GitHub Copilot cloud agent service was degraded and new cloud agent jobs were delayed from starting. During this period 100% of newly submitted agent jobs were affected."

  • Aug 3, 2026, 09:53 UTC · Incident with Copilot

    1 hour 32 min · rated "Minor"

    "On 2026-08-03, between 06:52 and 11:25 UTC, some GitHub Copilot users experienced errors when using chat and agent features."

GitHub Copilot uptime, last 90 days

Tracked since Oct 7, 2026. Updated Oct 22, 2026, 12:35 UTC.

Uptime100%
Avg response509 ms
Problems, 30 days0
Last problemNone recorded
90 days agoUp Degraded Down No dataToday

Every GitHub Copilot problem in the last 90 days

No outages, degraded periods or maintenance recorded since Oct 7, 2026.

Day by day

Day (UTC)UptimeAvg responseWorst
Oct 22, 2026100%240 msUp
Oct 21, 2026100%459 msUp
Oct 20, 2026100%431 msUp
Oct 19, 2026100%434 msUp
Oct 18, 2026100%412 msUp
Oct 17, 2026100%400 msUp
Oct 16, 2026100%752 msUp
Oct 15, 2026100%770 msUp
Oct 14, 2026100%787 msUp
Oct 13, 2026100%796 msUp
Oct 12, 2026100%790 msUp
Oct 11, 2026100%599 msUp
Oct 10, 2026100%307 msUp
Oct 9, 2026100%311 msUp
Oct 8, 2026100%321 msUp
Oct 7, 2026100%330 msUp

GitHub Copilot outage questions

Was GitHub Copilot down today?

No. We recorded no GitHub Copilot outage, degraded period or maintenance today (Oct 22, 2026, UTC).

Was GitHub Copilot down yesterday?

No. We recorded no GitHub Copilot outage, degraded period or maintenance yesterday (Oct 21, 2026, UTC).

When was GitHub Copilot last down?

The latest incident on the GitHub status page started Sep 28, 2026, 21:16 UTC: Copilot Code Review is unable to complete reviews (52 minutes).

What was the biggest GitHub Copilot outage?

Of the incidents on record since Aug 3, 2026, the biggest was on Aug 17, 2026: Incident with GitHub.com. The GitHub status page rated it "Critical" and it lasted 7 hours 36 min.

How often does GitHub Copilot go down?

GitHub Copilot's status page posted 11 incidents since Aug 3, 2026, 1 of them in the last 30 days. Most incidents affect part of the service, not all of it. Uptime from our own checks over the last 90 days: 100%.

Times are UTC. Official incidents are the company's own posts, quoted from the GitHub status page. Problem periods start when the official status page or our checks first show a problem and end when the service is next found working, so durations are accurate to within a few minutes. Recent outages across all services.