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GitHub Copilot problems on 29 October 2026

Timeline

1. 29 Oct 2026, 10:20 UTC
   We started seeing problems. Our verdict: Some users report problems.
2. 29 Oct 2026, 10:20 UTC · official update
   Disruption with Copilot Cloud services (investigating): “We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.” Source
3. 29 Oct 2026, 10:23 UTC · official update
   Disruption with Copilot Cloud services (investigating): “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.” Source
4. 29 Oct 2026, 11:01 UTC · official update
   Disruption with Copilot Cloud services (investigating): “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.” Source
5. 29 Oct 2026, 11:38 UTC · official update
   Disruption with Copilot Cloud services (investigating): “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.” Source
6. 29 Oct 2026, 12:34 UTC · official update
   Disruption with Copilot Cloud services (monitoring): “The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.” Source
7. 29 Oct 2026, 12:50 UTC
   Looking normal again. We'll keep watching for 15 minutes before closing this.
8. 29 Oct 2026, 13:04 UTC
   Everything has looked normal for 15 minutes, so we marked this incident as resolved.

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How we track incidents

We open an incident when GitHub Copilot stops looking normal or GitHub posts an official incident, and close it after 15 minutes with everything back to normal. More about our method.