GitHub incident
Disruption with Copilot chat and Copilot Coding Agent
Update timeline
- investigating Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
- 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.
- investigating Apr 22, 2026, 04:24 PM UTC
We continue to work on mitigation for Copilot chat and cloud agent.
- investigating Apr 22, 2026, 04:58 PM UTC
Mitigation is progressing for Copilot chat and cloud agent.
- investigating Apr 22, 2026, 05:40 PM UTC
Mitigation is progressing for Copilot chat and cloud agent recovery.
- investigating Apr 22, 2026, 05:49 PM UTC
We are now seeing recovery for Copilot cloud agent.
- investigating Apr 22, 2026, 06:05 PM UTC
Copilot cloud agent and chat are mitigated for github.com.
- 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.
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