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GitHub incident: Disruption with Copilot Cloud services

GitHub reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 29, 2026, 10:19 UTC. It was resolved after 2h 30m.

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Oct 29, 2026, 10:19 UTC
started
Oct 29, 2026, 12:49 UTC
resolved
2h 30m
duration
Minor
impact
  1. resolvedOct 29, 2026, 12:49 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.

  2. monitoringOct 29, 2026, 12:33 UTC

    The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  3. investigatingOct 29, 2026, 11:37 UTC

    We continue to experience failure rates of 1-2% and increased latency on our agent sessions service, including creating and listing sessions. This can impact cloud based agent sessions on web, mobile, VS Code, CLI and the GitHub Copilot app. We are actively applying mitigations and monitoring for recovery.

  4. investigatingOct 29, 2026, 11:01 UTC

    We continue to experience failure rates of 1-2% and increased latency on our agent sessions service, including creating and listing sessions. This can impact cloud based agent sessions on web, mobile, VS Code, CLI and the GitHub Copilot app.

  5. investigatingOct 29, 2026, 10:22 UTC

    We are experiencing increased failures and latency on our agent sessions service, including creating and listing sessions. This can impact cloud based agent sessions on web, mobile, VS Code, CLI and the GitHub Copilot app.

  6. investigatingOct 29, 2026, 10:19 UTC

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

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