Increased task-related errors for Copilot Mission Control

What to do

• Check whether your product depends on GitHub. Check your stack

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• Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 1h 17m it lasted.

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Updates from GitHub 6

1. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 8:45 AM UTC

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

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2. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 8:47 AM UTC

   Copilot Mission Control is experiencing increased error rates (approx 2.5%) in listing and creating tasks due to upstream database throttling. We are investigating two potential mitigations.

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3. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 9:11 AM UTC

   We've identified the issue with a specific client version and are deploying a mitigation. We are already seeing partial recovery.

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4. investigatingNov 4, 2026, 9:50 AM UTC

   We're continuing to see recovery as rollout continues

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5. monitoringNov 4, 2026, 10:01 AM UTC

   The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

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6. resolvedNov 4, 2026, 10:01 AM UTC

   This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

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Corrections

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