Incident with Copilot AI Model Providers

lowGitHubCopilotJul 29, 2026 20:07Duration: 1h 44m

api

API Issue

Summary

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Jul 29, 2026 20:07

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

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+1m

Jul 29, 2026 20:07

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

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+11m

Jul 29, 2026 20:18

[investigating] We are investigating increased error rates affecting GitHub Copilot requests to external AI model providers. Some users may experience failures or degraded performance when using Copilot features.

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+20m

Jul 29, 2026 20:38

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

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+30m

Jul 29, 2026 21:08

[investigating] The external AI model provider is continuing to investigate.

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+43m

Jul 29, 2026 21:51

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

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+0m

Jul 29, 2026 21:51

[resolved] This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

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Lessons Learned

⚠GitHub has experienced 127 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to api have occurred 832 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: API Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.