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Outage in GitHub

Disruption with GitHub Billing

Resolved Minor
August 26, 2026 - Started 1 day ago - Lasted about 20 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

GitHub experienced a 20-hour disruption affecting its billing services, causing failed billing budget page loads and Copilot CLI session failures. A mitigation was applied that restored Copilot functionality and stabilized billing services, with the team continuing to investigate the underlying concentrated workload responsible for the issue. The incident was fully resolved on August 27, 2026, with a root cause analysis to follow.

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

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RESOLVED about 6 hours ago - at 08/27/2026 07:44PM

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 08/27/2026 05:58PM

No material change since the previous update. Service conditions remain stable following the mitigation, and we have not observed any further customer impact. We are actively monitoring the service while implementing targeted fixes to address the underlying root cause.

INVESTIGATING about 9 hours ago - at 08/27/2026 04:20PM

Our mitigation continues to hold, and service conditions remain stable. We are continuing to investigate the concentrated workload responsible for the issue and are preparing additional preventative improvements. We have not identified a material change in customer impact since the previous update. We will provide another update as the investigation progresses.

INVESTIGATING about 11 hours ago - at 08/27/2026 02:49PM

Our mitigation is still holding as we continue to investigate to find the root cause.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 08/27/2026 01:35AM

We are continuing to monitor the mitigation that we have applied for the billing page disruption.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 08/27/2026 12:31AM

We've applied a mitigation to unblock Copilot usage and have observed recovery for this particular impact. We're continuing to investigate and apply mitigations for the billing page disruption while monitoring to ensure Copilot remains recovered.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 08/26/2026 11:42PM

We are currently investigating increased errors with billing services. Customers may observe failed billing budget page loads, and users of the Copilot CLI may observe failures starting or continuing sessions.

INVESTIGATING 1 day ago - at 08/26/2026 11:37PM

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

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