GitHub outage impacts developers and Copilot AI coding
TL;DR. GitHub experienced a significant outage affecting core services and Copilot users for several hours this morning, leading to widespread developer disruption. - The platform's status page indicated high error rates for API requests, pull requests, webhooks, and archive downloads. - GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant, was also affected, disrupting developers using AI-powered tools. - This outage follows another major service disruption for a Microsoft platform last month.
- GitHub core services, including API requests and pull requests, suffered an outage.
- GitHub Copilot, its AI coding assistant, was also impacted by the platform's downtime.
- Error rates were reported as high as 20% for web experiences and 50% for raw repository content.
- This is the second significant Microsoft-owned platform outage within recent weeks.
Sources
- GitHub has been down for most of the morning — engadget.com
- geekwire.com — geekwire.com