Disruption with OpenAI Models
What happened
On May 28th, 2026, between approximately 18:27 and 20:41 UTC, the GitHub Copilot service was degraded due to an issue with the Responses API of an upstream provider affecting the GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-5.4, and GPT-5.5 models. Requests routed to these models via the Responses API returned elevated error rates, which also affected Copilot coding agent and Copilot code review. No other models were impacted. We mitigated the incident by shifting traffic away from the affected models while the upstream provider deployed a fix. GitHub is working to improve automated failover for the affected models and strengthen monitoring to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Timeline
- Resolved · May 28, 20:41 UTC
On May 28th, 2026, between approximately 18:27 and 20:41 UTC, the GitHub Copilot service was degraded due to an issue with the Responses API of an upstream provider affecting the GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-5.4, and GPT-5.5 models. Requests routed to these models via the Responses API returned elevated error rates, which also affected Copilot coding agent and Copilot code review. No other models were impacted. We mitigated the incident by shifting traffic away from the affected models while the upstream provider deployed a fix. GitHub is working to improve automated failover for the affected models and strengthen monitoring to prevent similar incidents in the future.
More from GitHub
Full history| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2310:11 UTC | Incident across several services | minor | Ongoing |
| Sep 2022:13 UTC | Incident with Pull Requests | minor | 1h 9m |
| Sep 1720:59 UTC | Elevated rate of errors for OpenAI models provided by Copilot | minor | 50m |
| Sep 1607:20 UTC | Degradation with Gemini 3.8 Flash | major | 10h 28m |
| Sep 1519:11 UTC | Disruption with some GitHub services | minor | 49m |
| Sep 1509:47 UTC | Disruption with some GitHub services | minor | 1h 30m |
Also caused by third-party dependency
All| Started | Vendor | Incident | Impact | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1609:48 UTC | Support Portal Service Disruption | minor | 11h 21m | |
| Sep 1608:31 UTC | Support Helpdesk Availability Issues | minor | 6h 27m | |
| Sep 417:03 UTC | Degradation of Hosted Grafana in US Central Region | major | 3h 39m | |
| Sep 416:05 UTC | Elevated Linux worker queue times | major | 15h 4m | |
| Sep 115:25 UTC | Investigating issues in US Central (prod-us-central-0, prod-us-central-5) | minor | 4h 54m | |
| Aug 3106:26 UTC | Packet loss in ORD | minor | 1h 44m |
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