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Incident with Copilot

MinorDependencyUpdated 18h ago
Jan 8, 00:45 UTCJan 8, 01:32 UTC
Duration
47m
Impact
Minor
Root cause
Dependency
GitHub, 90 days
68 incidents
Affected
Not listed by the vendor.
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Final update

On January 8th, 2025, between approximately 00:00 and 1:30 UTC, the Copilot service experienced a degradation of the Grok Code Fast 1 model due to an issue with our upstream provider. Users encountered elevated error rates when using Grok Code Fast 1. Approximately 4.5% of requests failed across all users during this time. No other models were impacted. The issue was resolved by a mitigation put in place by our provider.

Timeline

  1. Resolved · Jan 8, 01:32 UTC
    On January 8th, 2025, between approximately 00:00 and 1:30 UTC, the Copilot service experienced a degradation of the Grok Code Fast 1 model due to an issue with our upstream provider. Users encountered elevated error rates when using Grok Code Fast 1. Approximately 4.5% of requests failed across all users during this time. No other models were impacted. The issue was resolved by a mitigation put in place by our provider.

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Full history
StartedIncidentDuration
Sep 2310:11 UTCIncident across several servicesOngoing
Sep 2022:13 UTCIncident with Pull Requests1h 9m
Sep 1720:59 UTCElevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by Copilot50m
Sep 1607:20 UTCDegradation with Gemini 3.8 Flash10h 28m
Sep 1519:11 UTCDisruption with some GitHub services49m
Sep 1509:47 UTCDisruption with some GitHub services1h 30m

Also caused by third-party dependency

All
StartedIncidentDuration
Sep 1609:48 UTCSupport Portal Service DisruptionDigitalOcean11h 21m
Sep 1608:31 UTCSupport Helpdesk Availability IssuesCloudflare6h 27m
Sep 417:03 UTCDegradation of Hosted Grafana in US Central RegionGrafana Labs3h 39m
Sep 416:05 UTCElevated Linux worker queue timesExpo15h 4m
Sep 115:25 UTCInvestigating issues in US Central (prod-us-central-0, prod-us-central-5)Grafana Labs4h 54m
Aug 3106:26 UTCPacket loss in ORDFly.io1h 44m

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