Incident with Copilot

At a glance · GitHub's status

ResolvedLasted 49 min

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

In short

GitHub reported a major outage affecting GitHub Enterprise Cloud EU, starting 09:44 UTC on 6 Aug. GitHub marked it resolved at 10:34 UTC after 49 min. GitHub has since published a post-incident report.

GitHub says

GitHub's latest update, , in short excerpts.

Between approximately 07:00 and 10:34 UTC on 2026-08-06, a specific deployment of the Copilot API was impacted.

GitHub,

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Timeline

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

  1. 6 Aug

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

  2. +50 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 EU

    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 ·

    Between approximately 07:00 and 10:34 UTC on 2026-08-06, a specific deployment of the Copilot API was impacted.

  2. Resolved ·

    This incident has been resolved.

  3. Investigating ·

    We have applied the configuration change and are seeing recovery for Copilot.

  4. Investigating ·

    We have identified an infrastructure issue with Copilot and are working on a configuration change to mitigate the availability degradation.

  5. Investigating ·

    We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Copilot

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