GitHub · Developer toolsJan 6, 2026, 08:56 UTC

Incident with Copilot

MinorDependencyUpdated 46d ago

Jan 6, 08:56 UTCJan 6, 10:08 UTC

Duration

1h 12m

Impact

Minor

Root cause

Dependency

GitHub, 90 days

69 incidents

Affected

Not listed by the vendor.

Status page

Final update

On January 6th, 2026, between approximately 8:41 and 10:07 UTC, the Copilot service experienced a degradation of the GPT-5.1-Codex-Max model due to an issue with our upstream provider. During this time, up to 14.17% of requests to GPT-5.1-Codex-Max failed. No other models were impacted. The issue was resolved by a mitigation put in place by our provider. GitHub is working with our provider to further improve the resiliency of the service to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Timeline

Resolved · Jan 6, 10:08 UTC
On January 6th, 2026, between approximately 8:41 and 10:07 UTC, the Copilot service experienced a degradation of the GPT-5.1-Codex-Max model due to an issue with our upstream provider. During this time, up to 14.17% of requests to GPT-5.1-Codex-Max failed. No other models were impacted. The issue was resolved by a mitigation put in place by our provider. GitHub is working with our provider to further improve the resiliency of the service to prevent similar incidents in the future.