Outage in GitHub

Incident with Copilot and Actions

Resolved Major

March 03, 2026 - Started about 6 hours ago - Lasted about 1 hour
Official incident page

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

GitHub experienced a major incident affecting multiple core services including Git Operations, API Requests, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions, Codespaces, and Copilot for 1.2 hours. Users encountered "uninitialized" errors and unhealthy upstream issues, with git pull operations processing but commits failing. GitHub identified the root cause, applied a mitigation around 19:17, and saw gradual recovery across services before full resolution at 20:09.

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Copilot and Issues

Components affected

GitHub Git Operations GitHub API Requests GitHub Webhooks GitHub Issues GitHub Pull Requests GitHub Actions GitHub Codespaces GitHub Copilot

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED about 5 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 08:09PM

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

INVESTIGATING about 5 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 08:06PM

We're seeing recovery across all services. We're continuing to monitor for full recovery.

INVESTIGATING about 5 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:55PM

Actions is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING about 5 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:54PM

Git Operations is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING about 5 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:36PM

Git Operations is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 5 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:33PM

We are seeing recovery across multiple services. Impact is mostly isolated to git operations at this point, we continue to investigate

INVESTIGATING about 5 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:31PM

Copilot is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING about 5 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:31PM

Pull Requests is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:28PM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:27PM

Issues is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:25PM

Webhooks is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:25PM

Codespaces is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:24PM

Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:23PM

Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:17PM

We've identified the issue and have applied a mitigation. We're seeing recovery of services. We continue to montitor for full recovery.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:15PM

API Requests is operating normally.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:14PM

API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:11PM

Codespaces is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:05PM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:04PM

Webhooks is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:03PM

We're seeing some service degradation across GitHub services. We're currently investigating impact.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:02PM

Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:00PM

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 07:00PM

API Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 03/03/2026 06:59PM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Copilot and Issues

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