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GitHub Copilot Major Outage - July 16, 2026

Provider incident title: “Degraded REST API Availability

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Started

Thursday, July 16, 2026

10:51 PM UTC

Duration

1h 22m

total

Resolved

12:14 AM UTC

Jul 17, 2026

Severity: Major Outage|Affected: GitHub Copilot|Duration: 1h 22m

Incident Timeline7 updates · oldest first

10:51 PM UTCInvestigating

We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

10:58 PM UTCInvestigating

We are aware of degraded REST API availability and are investigating

10:58 PM UTCInvestigating

API Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

11:29 PM UTCInvestigating

We are continuing to investigate an issue causing approximately 35% of REST API requests to fail.  Based on our current understanding, requests are not consistently reaching the application layer, resulting in failed requests returning HTML responses instead of the expected API response format. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide another update as soon as more information is available.

12:00 AM UTCMonitoring

The degradation affecting API Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

12:14 AM UTCMonitoring

As of 23:46 UTC, the REST API service is reachable and responding to requests normally.

12:14 AM UTCResolved

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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This incident was sourced from GitHub Copilot's official Atlassian Statuspage. Tickerr ingests updates every 10 minutes to surface incidents as they are posted by the provider.

This incident lasted 1h 22m.

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