What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on April 9, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 4 hours 15 minutes.
World's largest source code hosting platform with version control, CI/CD (Actions), code review, project management, and AI coding assistant (Copilot).
Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 04:42 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. |
| 09:57 | Investigating | We are investigating an issue affecting GitHub Copilot coding agent. Users may experience significant delays when starting new agent sessions, with jobs remaining queued longer than expected. Our t... |
| 09:50 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. |
| 19:52 | Investigating | We continue to investigate periodic delays in Copilot Cloud Agent job processing |
| 18:57 | Investigating | We are continuing to investigate Copilot Cloud Agent job delays |
| 17:48 | Investigating | Copilot Cloud Agent jobs are being processed and we are monitoring recovery |
| 16:57 | Investigating | We are investigating delays processing Copilot Cloud Agent jobs |
| 16:20 | Investigating | We are experiencing issues where jobs are being delayed to start for copilot coding agent |
| 16:20 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. |
| 20:45 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 4 hours 15 minutes. GitHub runs on Azure — check those status pages if you experienced cascading issues.
Resolution
GitHub has recovered and is now operational.
What To Do Next
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