GitHub Copilot Major Outage — April 27, 2026

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions

Customers across GitHub are experiencing failures with searches. Examples include: workflow run failures, projects failing to load, and timed out search requests. This is due to an ongoing infrastructure issue that we have been investigating.

Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

Packages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

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

Users are experiencing intermittent failures to view issues, pull requests, projects and Actions workflow runs.<br /><br />We are still investigating and attempting mitigations. We will provide further updates.

We're continuing to see connectivity issues reaching elasticsearch. Impact on downstream services will be intermittent as we find the root cause

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

We have identified the source of the additional load causing stress on our ElasticSearch clusters. We have disabled the source of that load and are seeing signs of recovery

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

We've applied a mitigation and continuing to monitor

The degradation affecting Actions, Issues, Packages and Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

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

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

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.