Outage recap · GitHub

GitHub Copilot outage — October 30, 2026

On October 30, 2026, GitHub Copilot had 3 reported incidents on GitHub's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Disruption with GitHub services

critical
Started
Oct 30, 10:31 AM EDT
Resolved
Oct 30, 11:02 AM EDT
Duration
32 min

GitHub's updates (8)

  1. investigating · Oct 30, 10:31 AM EDT

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

  2. investigating · Oct 30, 10:35 AM EDT

    We are investigating degraded performance across multiple services. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation.

  3. investigating · Oct 30, 10:36 AM EDT

    Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  4. investigating · Oct 30, 10:39 AM EDT

    Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  5. investigating · Oct 30, 10:45 AM EDT

    Issues is operating normally.

  6. investigating · Oct 30, 10:48 AM EDT

    A temporarily overloaded component triggered a burst of errors between 14:21 and 14:30 UTC across numerous services. Component health has returned to normal and we continue to monitor while investigating the root cause.<br />

  7. monitoring · Oct 30, 10:49 AM EDT

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

  8. resolved · Oct 30, 11:02 AM EDT

    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.

What our checks recorded

We checked GitHub Copilot 6 times from GitHub's start time to its resolution, once every five minutes. Every one of them reached GitHub Copilot's site, so this incident did not show up as a failed page load. Our check loads the public site; it cannot see an API error or a broken feature. Median response time was 102 ms, against 136 ms over the 24 hours before. GitHub posted the incident at Oct 30, 10:31 AM EDT.

Updates are GitHub's own words from its status page (status: resolved); we never add an inferred cause. The vendor's incident page ↗

Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks

major
Started
Oct 30, 1:50 PM EDT
Resolved
Oct 30, 3:23 PM EDT
Duration
1h 33m

GitHub's updates (6)

  1. investigating · Oct 30, 1:50 PM EDT

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions and Webhooks

  2. investigating · Oct 30, 2:00 PM EDT

    Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

  3. investigating · Oct 30, 2:06 PM EDT

    We continue to investigate delays affecting Actions workflows, Pages deployments, and webhook events, along with errors affecting code search and live updates. We have taken mitigation steps. Actions processing and Pages deployments are showing signs of recovery, but impact has not fully resolved. We are monitoring recovery and investigating the underlying cause.

  4. investigating · Oct 30, 2:32 PM EDT

    All affected services have recovered following mitigation. We continue to investigate root cause.

  5. monitoring · Oct 30, 2:32 PM EDT

    The degradation affecting Actions, Pages and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  6. resolved · Oct 30, 3:23 PM EDT

    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.

What our checks recorded

We checked GitHub Copilot 18 times from GitHub's start time to its resolution, once every five minutes. Every one of them reached GitHub Copilot's site, so this incident did not show up as a failed page load. Our check loads the public site; it cannot see an API error or a broken feature. Median response time was 137 ms, against 138 ms over the 24 hours before. GitHub posted the incident at Oct 30, 1:50 PM EDT.

Updates are GitHub's own words from its status page (status: resolved); we never add an inferred cause. The vendor's incident page ↗

Incident with Dependabot

minor
Started
Oct 30, 4:59 PM EDT
Resolved
Oct 30, 7:29 PM EDT
Duration
2h 30m

GitHub's updates (6)

  1. investigating · Oct 30, 4:59 PM EDT

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

  2. investigating · Oct 30, 5:00 PM EDT

    We are investigating elevated errors when viewing some Dependabot alerts.

  3. investigating · Oct 30, 5:44 PM EDT

    We are continuing to investigate elevated errors when viewing some Dependabot alerts. We’ll provide more updates as we learn more.

  4. investigating · Oct 30, 6:32 PM EDT

    We have mitigated impact and are seeing recovery. We are monitoring for full recovery.

  5. monitoring · Oct 30, 6:32 PM EDT

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

  6. resolved · Oct 30, 7:29 PM EDT

    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.

What our checks recorded

We checked GitHub Copilot 30 times from GitHub's start time to its resolution, once every five minutes. Every one of them reached GitHub Copilot's site, so this incident did not show up as a failed page load. Our check loads the public site; it cannot see an API error or a broken feature. Median response time was 441 ms, against 139 ms over the 24 hours before. GitHub posted the incident at Oct 30, 4:59 PM EDT.

Updates are GitHub's own words from its status page (status: resolved); we never add an inferred cause. The vendor's incident page ↗

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