GitHub Copilot Outage: Increased task-related errors for Copilot Mission Control — Nov 4, 2026

Official updates

1. resolved2026-11-04 10:01:44 UTC

   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.

2. monitoring2026-11-04 10:01:39 UTC

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

3. investigating2026-11-04 09:50:33 UTC

   We're continuing to see recovery as rollout continues

4. investigating2026-11-04 09:11:08 UTC

   We've identified the issue with a specific client version and are deploying a mitigation. We are already seeing partial recovery.

5. investigating2026-11-04 08:47:14 UTC

   Copilot Mission Control is experiencing increased error rates (approx 2.5%) in listing and creating tasks due to upstream database throttling. We are investigating two potential mitigations.

6. investigating2026-11-04 08:45:00 UTC

   We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.