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Outage in GitHub

Disruption with Copilot Cloud services

Resolved Minor
October 29, 2026 - Started about 6 hours ago - Lasted about 3 hours
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Summary AI Generated

GitHub Copilot's cloud-based agent sessions service experienced elevated failure rates of 1–2% and increased latency for approximately 2.5 hours, affecting the ability to create and list sessions. The disruption impacted users across web, mobile, VS Code, CLI, and the GitHub Copilot app. Mitigations were applied and the incident was fully resolved, with a root cause analysis to follow.

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

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RESOLVED about 3 hours ago - at 10/29/2026 12:49PM

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.

MONITORING about 3 hours ago - at 10/29/2026 12:33PM

The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

INVESTIGATING about 4 hours ago - at 10/29/2026 11:37AM

We continue to experience failure rates of 1-2% and increased latency on our agent sessions service, including creating and listing sessions. This can impact cloud based agent sessions on web, mobile, VS Code, CLI and the GitHub Copilot app. We are actively applying mitigations and monitoring for recovery.

INVESTIGATING about 5 hours ago - at 10/29/2026 11:01AM

We continue to experience failure rates of 1-2% and increased latency on our agent sessions service, including creating and listing sessions. This can impact cloud based agent sessions on web, mobile, VS Code, CLI and the GitHub Copilot app.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 10/29/2026 10:22AM

We are experiencing increased failures and latency on our agent sessions service, including creating and listing sessions. This can impact cloud based agent sessions on web, mobile, VS Code, CLI and the GitHub Copilot app.

INVESTIGATING about 6 hours ago - at 10/29/2026 10:19AM

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

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