GitHub Copilot · 65d ago
Some Copilot Cloud Agent jobs not starting
ResolvedYes — GitHub Copilot had a problem on August 5, 2026, and GitHub Copilot has since marked it resolved. GitHub Copilot's latest word: “On August 5, 2026, between 11:02 and 11:54 UTC, the GitHub Copilot cloud agent service was degraded and new cloud agent jobs were delayed from starting. During this period 100% of newly submitted agent jobs were affected. The incident was limited to delay of cloud agent jobs. No jobs were lost and the queued backlog was processed by 13:00 UTC. This was due to an internal rate limit used to protect service availability that was enabled more broadly than intended delaying more traffic than expected. <br /> <br />The service recovered when the rate limit window expired. We then tuned the control so it no longer affected unrelated coding agent traffic. <br /> <br />We are working to improve the control's scoping and our monitoring and alerting to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of similar issues in the future.”
Timeline
Started: 8/5/2026, 11:38:57 AM
Last update: 8/6/2026, 2:38:40 PM
Resolved: 8/5/2026, 1:00:25 PM
Updates
resolved
On August 5, 2026, between 11:02 and 11:54 UTC, the GitHub Copilot cloud agent service was degraded and new cloud agent jobs were delayed from starting. During this period 100% of newly submitted agent jobs were affected. The incident was limited to delay of cloud agent jobs. No jobs were lost and the queued backlog was processed by 13:00 UTC. This was due to an internal rate limit used to protect service availability that was enabled more broadly than intended delaying more traffic than expected. <br /> <br />The service recovered when the rate limit window expired. We then tuned the control so it no longer affected unrelated coding agent traffic. <br /> <br />We are working to improve the control's scoping and our monitoring and alerting to reduce our time to detection and mitigation of similar issues in the future.
8/5/2026, 1:00:25 PM
monitoring
Copilot cloud agent jobs have recovered and the backlog of delayed jobs is being processed.
8/5/2026, 12:10:46 PM
monitoring
The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
8/5/2026, 12:01:29 PM
investigating
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
8/5/2026, 11:38:57 AM
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