GitHub experienced a critical incident on May 6, 2026, lasting 38m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- investigating May 06, 2026, 11:21 AM UTC
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
- investigating May 06, 2026, 11:25 AM UTC
We are investigating issues with the ability to start Copilot Cloud Agent sessions and view them.
- investigating May 06, 2026, 11:59 AM UTC
We have applied a mitigation and Copilot services have recovered.
- resolved May 06, 2026, 11:59 AM 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.
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