GitHub Outage History

GitHub experienced a 4.3-hour service disruption that primarily affected the Copilot Dashboard on the Insights tab, making it inaccessible to users. The incident began with reports of impacted performance across some GitHub services, but was later identified as specifically impacting the Copilot Dashboard functionality. The issue was mitigated and resolved, with GitHub continuing to monitor for stability.

GitHub Pages experienced degraded availability for 41 minutes, with users reporting that JavaScript served from github.io domains was not functioning properly. The issue was mitigated and resolved, with GitHub monitoring the service to ensure stability was restored.

GitHub experienced a 59-minute service disruption affecting some of their services, including Copilot, with users reporting impacted performance. The team identified the root cause and deployed a fix, with services entering recovery mode and full restoration expected within 5-10 minutes. The incident was fully resolved, with a detailed root cause analysis to follow.

GitHub experienced a 25-minute incident where third-party Claude and Codex Agent sessions were not appearing in the agents tab dashboard. The issue affected the visibility and management of these AI agent sessions within GitHub's interface. The incident was resolved after investigation and GitHub confirmed normal service restoration.

GitHub experienced a major service disruption lasting 4.3 hours that primarily affected Copilot Cloud Agent job processing, causing significant delays in job execution and startup times. Users encountered performance issues with GitHub's AI coding assistant services during this period. The incident was resolved after continuous monitoring and investigation, with GitHub promising a detailed root cause analysis.

GitHub experienced a major service disruption lasting 27 minutes that primarily affected GitHub Copilot coding agent performance. Users encountered significant delays when starting new agent sessions, with jobs remaining queued longer than expected due to increased system load. The incident was resolved after GitHub's team addressed the performance issues.

GitHub experienced a minor service disruption affecting notifications and performance across some services for 16 minutes. The incident was resolved after investigation, with GitHub promising to share a detailed root cause analysis once available.

GitHub experienced performance issues with Copilot Cloud Agent over 4 hours, where tasks assigned to the agent would appear to be working but were not actually running, causing false job starts. The issue recurred multiple times with periods of recovery and degradation before being fully resolved, though queued work was eventually processed during the outages.

GitHub's Copilot Coding Agent experienced failures when starting some jobs, impacting performance for certain GitHub services. The incident lasted 14 minutes before being resolved. A root cause analysis was promised to be shared once available.

GitHub experienced a service incident where audit logs became unavailable due to performance issues affecting some GitHub services. The outage lasted approximately 5 minutes before being resolved. GitHub has indicated they will provide a detailed root cause analysis once available.