Widespread GitHub outage disrupts API, pull requests and Copilot services

GitHub suffered a significant outage beginning at approximately 9:40 AM ET, causing widespread disruptions across its core services. The status page listed elevated error rates of about 20 percent for web experiences and API calls, while downloads of archives and raw repository content encountered roughly 50 percent error rates. A notice issued just before 11 AM confirmed that the company was implementing mitigations based on its investigation and monitoring the situation.

Copilot, GitHub's AI coding assistant, was also reported as affected. No definitive cause for the outage has been identified, and the incident follows a recent Xbox service disruption on another Microsoft platform.