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GitHub Copilot · 29d ago

Disruption with Copilot Code Review

Resolved

Yes — GitHub Copilot had a problem on September 4, 2026, and GitHub Copilot has since marked it resolved. GitHub Copilot's latest word: “On September 4, 2026, between 20:04 and 22:26 UTC, GitHub Copilot code review experienced an increased failure rate. Affected pull request reviews failed to complete or post review comments.<br /><br />The incident was caused by a change to the service’s authentication permissions that prevented it from submitting affected reviews to the GitHub API. We reverted the change and restored normal operation by 22:26 UTC.<br /><br />We apologize for the disruption.”

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Timeline

Started: 9/4/2026, 8:39:03 PM

Last update: 9/9/2026, 5:07:58 PM

Resolved: 9/4/2026, 10:26:46 PM

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Updates

  • resolved

    On September 4, 2026, between 20:04 and 22:26 UTC, GitHub Copilot code review experienced an increased failure rate. Affected pull request reviews failed to complete or post review comments.<br /><br />The incident was caused by a change to the service’s authentication permissions that prevented it from submitting affected reviews to the GitHub API. We reverted the change and restored normal operation by 22:26 UTC.<br /><br />We apologize for the disruption.

    9/4/2026, 10:26:46 PM

  • monitoring

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

    9/4/2026, 10:25:44 PM

  • investigating

    We are applying the mitigation and expect recovery within approximately 30 minutes.

    9/4/2026, 9:54:22 PM

  • investigating

    Some users may be experiencing failures when using Copilot code review. We have identified the root cause and are working on a mitigation.

    9/4/2026, 8:57:53 PM

  • investigating

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

    9/4/2026, 8:39:03 PM

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