What Happened
GitHub experienced an outage on April 22, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 3 hours 40 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 18:05 | Investigating | Copilot cloud agent and chat are mitigated for github.com. |
| 17:49 | Investigating | We are now seeing recovery for Copilot cloud agent. |
| 17:40 | Investigating | Mitigation is progressing for Copilot chat and cloud agent recovery. |
| 16:58 | Investigating | Mitigation is progressing for Copilot chat and cloud agent. |
| 16:24 | Investigating | We continue to work on mitigation for Copilot chat and cloud agent. |
| 15:43 | Investigating | We are aware of users seeing errors interacting with Copilot chat on github.com and Copilot cloud agent. We have identified the cause and are investigating remediations. |
| 15:35 | Investigating | We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. |
| 19:21 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 3 hours 40 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
- View GitHub live status and outage history
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