Disruption with Copilot chat and Copilot Coding Agent

Update timeline

1. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 PM UTC

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

2. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 03:43 PM UTC

   We are aware of users seeing errors interacting with Copilot chat on github.com and Copilot cloud agent. We have identified the cause and are investigating remediations.

3. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 04:24 PM UTC

   We continue to work on mitigation for Copilot chat and cloud agent.

4. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 04:58 PM UTC

   Mitigation is progressing for Copilot chat and cloud agent.

5. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 05:40 PM UTC

   Mitigation is progressing for Copilot chat and cloud agent recovery.

6. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 05:49 PM UTC

   We are now seeing recovery for Copilot cloud agent.

7. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 06:05 PM UTC

   Copilot cloud agent and chat are mitigated for github.com.

8. resolved Apr 22, 2026, 07:18 PM UTC

   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.