GitHub Copilot Code Review outage left reviews incomplete on September 28
GitHub reports that approximately 70% of requested Copilot Code Reviews did not complete during a September 28 disruption from 19:23 to 22:08 UTC. Failed reviews were not automatically retried, so users needed to request them again.
SessionWatcher editorial · Published · Updated · Source announcement: 2026-09-28
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Reviews disrupted for 2 hours and 45 minutes
GitHub's status page says Copilot Code Review was degraded on September 28, 2026, from 19:23 UTC to 22:08 UTC. Pull request reviews failed to complete across all environments.
On average, approximately 70% of requested reviews did not complete during the incident.
Failed reviews needed a new request
Reviews requested during the disruption were not automatically retried. Users whose reviews did not complete needed to re-request a review from their pull request.
GitHub mitigated the incident by reverting a change and reported that Copilot Code Review had recovered at 22:08 UTC.
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