Incident with Copilot AI Model Providers

At a glance · GitHub's status

ResolvedLasted 1 h 44 min

First posted
on GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status
Ended
· marked resolved
Affects
GitHub Enterprise Cloud Australia
Edited
Not since we first saw it
Source
GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status · checked just now

In short

GitHub reported a partial outage affecting GitHub Enterprise Cloud Australia, starting 20:07 UTC on 29 Jul. GitHub marked it resolved at 21:51 UTC after 1 h 44 min. GitHub has since published a post-incident report.

GitHub says

GitHub's latest update, , in short excerpts.

On July 29, 2026, between 19:45 UTC and 21:51 UTC, users of the Fable 5 model in GitHub Copilot experienced increased request failures and latency.

GitHub,

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Timeline

Times in UTC, GitHub's own where it gives them.

  1. 29 Jul

    GitHubFirst public postFrom GitHub's own incident history, before our archive started.

  2. +1 h 44 min

    GitHubResolved

What GitHub changed

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  1. First version we captured ·

    As first seen: postmortem · 1 service
    Status
    postmortem
    Services
    GitHub Enterprise Cloud Australia

    Seen by us · GitHub's timestamp · GitHub's page

Affected services

Official updates

Posted by GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency status, newest first. The newest are quoted in their first sentence; the full text of each is on GitHub's page.

  1. Post-incident report ·

    On July 29, 2026, between 19:45 UTC and 21:51 UTC, users of the Fable 5 model in GitHub Copilot experienced increased request failures and latency.

  2. Resolved ·

    This incident has been resolved.

  3. Investigating ·

    The external ai model provider has resolved the issues, and we have verified Copilot's traffic is fully recovered.

  4. Investigating ·

    The external AI model provider is continuing to investigate.

  5. Investigating ·

    The external AI model provider has identified the issue and is working to resolve.

  6. Investigating ·

    We are investigating increased error rates affecting GitHub Copilot requests to external AI model providers.

  7. Investigating ·

    We are seeing increased error rates with requests to specific model providers.

  8. Investigating ·

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot AI Model Providers

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