GitHub Investigating Copilot Code Review Disruption

GitHub is reporting an active service incident on its official status page.

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Updated September 4, 2026Sep 4, 2026

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Updated 5:54 p.m. Eastern on September 4, 2026

GitHub is investigating a major disruption affecting Copilot Code Review. The latest update says they are applying a mitigation and expect recovery within approximately 30 minutes.

What is affected

The incident affects Copilot Code Review, with some users experiencing failures when using this feature. The impact is rated as major.

Official update timeline

4:39 p.m. Eastern on September 4, 2026, marked Investigating

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

4:57 p.m. Eastern on September 4, 2026, marked Investigating

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

5:54 p.m. Eastern on September 4, 2026, marked Investigating

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

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