Incident with Copilot
Feb 26, 10:22 UTCFeb 26, 11:06 UTC
Duration
44m
Impact
Minor
Root cause
Not disclosed
GitHub, 90 days
69 incidents
Affected
Not listed by the vendor.
Final update
On February 26, 2026, between 09:27 UTC and 10:36 UTC, the GitHub Copilot service was degraded and users experienced errors when using Copilot features including Copilot Chat, Copilot Coding Agent and Copilot Code Review. During this time, 5-15% of affected requests to the service returned errors. The incident was resolved by infrastructure rebalancing. We are improving observability to detect capacity imbalances earlier and enhancing our infrastructure to better handle traffic spikes.
Timeline
- Resolved · Feb 26, 11:06 UTC
On February 26, 2026, between 09:27 UTC and 10:36 UTC, the GitHub Copilot service was degraded and users experienced errors when using Copilot features including Copilot Chat, Copilot Coding Agent and Copilot Code Review. During this time, 5-15% of affected requests to the service returned errors. The incident was resolved by infrastructure rebalancing. We are improving observability to detect capacity imbalances earlier and enhancing our infrastructure to better handle traffic spikes.
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