Outage
Copilot outage on August 18, 2026: what happened and how long it lasted
On August 18, 2026, GitHub Copilot had an outage between 07:40 and 11:42 UTC, about 4 h in total. The vendor posted 2 incidents.
Timeline (UTC)
- OfficialOfficial incident posted: Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages
- OfficialOfficial incident posted: Incident with Actions
- OfficialOfficially resolved: Incident with Actions
- OfficialOfficially resolved: Intermittent failures in runner group and runner-related permissions pages
Hourly measurements (UTC)
00:0012:0023:00
Was Copilot down on August 18, 2026?
On August 18, 2026, GitHub Copilot had an outage between 07:40 and 11:42 UTC, about 4 h in total. The vendor posted 2 incidents.
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