Incident with Copilot
Feb 3, 10:16 UTCFeb 3, 10:56 UTC
Duration
40m
Impact
Minor
Root cause
Capacity
GitHub, 90 days
68 incidents
Affected
Not listed by the vendor.
Final update
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.
Timeline
- Resolved · Feb 3, 10:56 UTC
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.
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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 |
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