GitHub incident

Disruption with Copilot chat and Copilot Coding Agent

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

GitHub experienced a critical incident on April 22, 2026, lasting 3h 42m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 22, 2026, 07:18 PM UTC
Duration
3h 42m
Detected by Pingoru
Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 PM UTC

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.