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Updated · github.blog · Jun 11
GitHub Copilot Degraded for 1 Hour 40 Minutes as Upstream API Hit 4 GPT Models
Updated
Updated · github.blog · Jun 11

GitHub Copilot Degraded for 1 Hour 40 Minutes as Upstream API Hit 4 GPT Models

1 articles · Updated · github.blog · Jun 11

Summary

  • May 28 from 18:27 to 20:41 UTC, GitHub Copilot suffered elevated error rates after an upstream provider’s Responses API issue hit GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5.
  • Copilot coding agent and Copilot code review were also affected because requests routed through those models failed, while no other models were impacted.
  • GitHub mitigated the outage by shifting traffic away from the affected models as the upstream provider deployed a fix.
  • The incident capped a month with nine GitHub service degradations in May, as the company said it is expanding automated failover, monitoring and broader infrastructure resilience work.

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