Incident with Copilot

Incident Report for GitHub

Resolved

On February 3, 2026, between 09:35 UTC and 10:15 UTC, GitHub Copilot experienced elevated error rates, with an average of 4% of requests failing.

This was caused by a capacity imbalance that led to resource exhaustion on backend services. The incident was resolved by infrastructure rebalancing, and we subsequently deployed additional capacity.

We are improving observability to detect capacity imbalances earlier and enhancing our infrastructure to better handle traffic spikes.

Posted Feb 03, 2026 - 10:56 UTC

Update

We are now seeing recovery.

Posted Feb 03, 2026 - 10:55 UTC

Update

We are investigating elevated 500s across Copilot services.

Posted Feb 03, 2026 - 10:21 UTC

Investigating

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot

Posted Feb 03, 2026 - 10:16 UTC

This incident affected: Copilot.