GitHub Copilot incident

Disruption with some GitHub services

Major Resolved Upstream link ↗

Started

October 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM UTC

Duration

1h 44m

Resolved

October 6, 2026 at 01:32 AM UTC

Updates timeline

  1. Investigating

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

  2. Investigating

    Users may experience issues accessing organization and enterprise billing and licensing pages. We are deploying a mitigation and monitoring for recovery.

  3. Resolved

    On October 5, 2026, between 23:05 UTC and 00:11 UTC on October 6, some users experienced slow page loads, timeouts, and errors when accessing organization and enterprise billing, licensing, and settings pages. On average, the error rate was 1.9% and peaked at 13.8% of requests to the service that powers these pages.<br /><br />This was caused by a networking failure, which disrupted connectivity between one of our on-premises datacenter regions and a subset of cloud-hosted regional database services. We mitigated the incident by shifting the database traffic to a healthy region.<br /><br />We are working to make regional database failover faster and more complete, reduce timeouts so these pages fail fast instead of hanging, and add latency-based alerting to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of issues like this one in the future. We continue to partner with our cloud provider to understand the underlying network failure.

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