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Incident with Codespaces

Started

Thursday, April 16, 2026

03:06 PM UTC

Duration

3h 21m

total

Resolved

06:28 PM UTC

Apr 16, 2026

Incident Timeline7 updates · newest first

Resolved06:28 PM UTC · Apr 16, 2026

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.

Monitoring06:22 PM UTC · Apr 16, 2026

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

Investigating04:37 PM UTC · Apr 16, 2026

Our provider is implementing a mitigation and we are seeing signs of recovery.

Investigating03:49 PM UTC · Apr 16, 2026

We found an issue that impacts 70% of Codespaces. We are engaged with the provider and working towards mitigation.

Investigating03:41 PM UTC · Apr 16, 2026

Codespaces is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

Investigating03:08 PM UTC · Apr 16, 2026

We are experiencing degraded performance in Codespaces related to creating a new Codespace or starting an existing Codespace from the VS Code editor. SSH connections to Codespaces are not impacted. We are working toward mitigation and will continue to keep you updated on progress.

Investigating03:06 PM UTC · Apr 16, 2026

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Codespaces

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