GitHub experienced a minor incident on August 3, 2026 affecting Copilot, lasting 1h 31m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 03, 2026, 09:53 AM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot
- investigating Aug 03, 2026, 09:54 AM UTC
We are experiencing degraded availability for chat & agent models in Copilot. Multiple models are impacted and customers may experience requests failing. We are investigating and will provide an update as soon as possible.
- investigating Aug 03, 2026, 10:35 AM UTC
We are still seeing intermittent errors with Copilot, and are continuing to investigate and consider mitigations.
- monitoring Aug 03, 2026, 11:19 AM UTC
The degradation affecting Copilot has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- resolved Aug 03, 2026, 11:25 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.