GitHub outage, November 2026: Incident with API, Git, and Copilot requests

GitHub reported and resolved an incident: Incident with API, Git, and Copilot requests. It lasted 31 minutes.

Resolved

From GitHub's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
31 minutes
Impact
minor
Affected
API Requests, Issues, Copilot
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  3. Monitoring
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

GitHub has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

How it was 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.

GitHub's closing update

This incident on the GitHub status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From GitHub's official status page, in their words.

  1. investigating

    We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot

  2. investigating

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

  3. investigating

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

  4. monitoring

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

  5. investigating

    API Requests is operating normally.

  6. monitoring

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

  7. 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.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 31 minutes.
  • Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
  • If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.

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