Outage recap · GitHub

GitHub Copilot outage — November 3, 2026

On November 3, 2026, GitHub Copilot had 2 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.

Incident with API, Git, and Copilot requests

minor
Started
Nov 3, 8:25 AM EST
Resolved
Nov 3, 8:56 AM EST
Duration
31 min

GitHub's updates (7)

  1. investigating · Nov 3, 8:25 AM EST

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot

  2. investigating · Nov 3, 8:42 AM EST

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

  3. investigating · Nov 3, 8:43 AM EST

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

  4. monitoring · Nov 3, 8:51 AM EST

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

  5. investigating · Nov 3, 8:52 AM EST

    API Requests is operating normally.

  6. monitoring · Nov 3, 8:54 AM EST

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

  7. resolved · Nov 3, 8:56 AM 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 515 ms, against 444 ms over the 24 hours before. GitHub posted the incident at Nov 3, 8:25 AM EST.

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 Git Operations

minor
Started
Nov 3, 3:57 PM EST
Resolved
Nov 3, 5:41 PM EST
Duration
1h 44m

GitHub's updates (6)

  1. investigating · Nov 3, 3:57 PM EST

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Git Operations

  2. investigating · Nov 3, 4:37 PM EST

    We have identified the issue impacting Git Operations and are beginning to roll out a mitigation. We will follow up with another update when we begin to see recovery.

  3. investigating · Nov 3, 5:05 PM EST

    Our mitigation is rolled out and customers should start seeing improvements to Git Operations. We will continue to provide updates on mitigation status.

  4. investigating · Nov 3, 5:37 PM EST

    We are seeing significant improvement, though some Git Operations may be slow for a small set of customers. We are marking this as mitigated and will continue to monitor.

  5. monitoring · Nov 3, 5:37 PM EST

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

  6. resolved · Nov 3, 5:41 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 21 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 427 ms, against 449 ms over the 24 hours before. GitHub posted the incident at Nov 3, 3:57 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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