GitHub reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 1, 2026, 18:03 UTC. It was resolved after 41 min.
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On August 1, 2026, between 17:47 UTC and 18:20 UTC, users of the Fable 5 model in GitHub Copilot experienced increased request failures and latency. The average failure rate across all Copilot requests was 0.007%, while failures for Fable 5 peaked at 5.6%. Other models remained available. This was caused by degradation of an upstream model provider.<br /><br />The affected endpoint recovered, and we monitored the service until error rates and latency returned to normal levels. We are working to add endpoint redundancy to mitigate similar provider issues in the future.
The issues with our upstream model provider have been resolved, and Fable 5 is once again available in Copilot products and IDE surfaces.<br /><br />We will continue monitoring to ensure stability, but mitigation is complete.
The degradation affecting Copilot AI Model Providers has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
We are experiencing degraded availability for the Fable 5 model in Copilot products and IDE surfaces. This is due to an issue with an upstream model provider. While we work with them to resolve the issue, we recommend choosing another model or selecting 'Auto' to continue using Copilot.
We are seeing increased error rates from specific upstream AI Model Providers
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot AI Model Providers
Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in GitHub's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.
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