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GitHub Copilot Experiences Widespread Model Availability Outage

GitHub's AI coding assistant suffered degraded service affecting chat and agent models for over an hour before being fully restored.

By The Downtime · Jun 30, 2026 · 1:00 PM

GitHub Copilot experienced critical availability issues on June 17, 2026, between approximately 03:35 UTC and 04:44 UTC. Multiple frontier chat models became unavailable across all regions, with affected users seeing models disappear from selection interfaces or encountering "model not available" errors. The service is now fully resolved.

GitHub is a widely-used platform where developers build, collaborate on, and host code. Copilot is the company's AI-powered coding assistant, integrated into developer tools and web interfaces.

GitHub's production systems flagged a configuration change as invalid, which triggered the widespread model unavailability. The company mitigated the incident by reverting the problematic configuration. Because the outage occurred during off-peak hours, the number of affected customers was limited.

GitHub said it is implementing stronger validations for configuration changes, adding alerts for sudden drops in available models, and deploying automatic rollbacks when such alerts trigger. The incident is now fully resolved.

🕒 Live updates (5)

resolved Jun 17, 4:44 AM

On June 17, 2026, between approximately 03:35 UTC and 04:44 UTC, GitHub Copilot was degraded and most of its frontier chat models were temporarily unavailable across all regions. During this window, affected models either disappeared from the model picker in the web, editor, and CLI experiences, or returned a "model not available" error when selected. Customers could continue using GitHub Copilot by selecting one of the models that remained available. The incident occurred during off-peak hours, which limited the number of customers affected.This was due to a configuration change that our production system deemed invalid. We mitigated the incident by reverting the configuration change, after which the affected models returned automatically as the service reloaded the previous configuration.We are working to roll out configuration changes gradually with stronger validations, alerts on sudden drops in the number of available models, and automatically rolls back configuration changes that produce these alerts.

monitoring Jun 17, 4:44 AM

Copilot is operating normally.

investigating Jun 17, 4:26 AM

We've applied a mitigation to unblock Copilot functionality. Users may start to see signs of recovery. Relaunching your client should accelerate signs of recovery. We will continue to monitor the situation.

investigating Jun 17, 3:52 AM

We are experiencing degraded availability for chat & agent models in Copilot. Multiple models are impacted and customers may experience requests failing. We are investigating and will provide an update as soon as possible.

investigating Jun 17, 3:50 AM

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Copilot

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