Outage recap · GitHub

GitHub Copilot outage — November 2, 2026

On November 2, 2026, GitHub Copilot had a reported incident on GitHub's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Elevated errors on GPT-5.4 Nano

minor
Started
Nov 2, 12:46 PM EST
Resolved
Nov 2, 1:24 PM EST
Duration
38 min

GitHub's updates (5)

  1. investigating · Nov 2, 12:46 PM EST

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot AI Model Providers

  2. investigating · Nov 2, 12:46 PM EST

    We are investigating reports of elevated errors on GPT-5.4 Nano

  3. investigating · Nov 2, 12:58 PM EST

    We are experiencing degraded availability for the GPT-5.4 Nano model in Copilot products and IDE surfaces. This is due to an issue with an upstream model provider.

  4. monitoring · Nov 2, 1:10 PM EST

    The degradation affecting Copilot AI Model Providers has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

  5. resolved · Nov 2, 1:24 PM EST

    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 7 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 284 ms, against 479 ms over the 24 hours before. GitHub posted the incident at Nov 2, 12:46 PM EST.

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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