Outage in GitHub

Errors starting and connecting to Codespaces

Resolved Minor

March 16, 2026 - Started about 8 hours ago - Lasted 29 minutes
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Summary AI Generated

GitHub experienced a service incident where users encountered errors when starting or connecting to Codespaces, preventing access to their development environments. The issue affected GitHub Codespaces functionality, making some development environments inaccessible to users. The incident was resolved after 29 minutes of investigation and remediation efforts.

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED about 8 hours ago - at 03/16/2026 03:28PM

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 8 hours ago - at 03/16/2026 03:06PM

We are investigating reports of users experiencing errors when starting or connecting to Codespaces. Some users may be unable to access their development environments during this time. We are working to identify the root cause and will implement a fix as soon as possible.

INVESTIGATING about 8 hours ago - at 03/16/2026 03:01PM

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

Latest GitHub outages

Degraded performance for various services - 3 days ago

Degraded Codespaces experience - 4 days ago

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