Intermittent failures creating agent tasks
Intermittent failures creating agent tasks
Update
We are continuing to observe gradual recovery for Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility. Session output continues to be delayed by approximately 1 hour as our remediation steps take effect.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 19:35 UTC
Update
We are continuing to observe gradual recovery for Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility, with session output delayed by approximately 1 hour. We have taken additional steps to accelerate the recovery and expect this to take effect within the next hour.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 18:45 UTC
Update
We are continuing to observe gradual recovery for Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility, with session output delayed by approximately 1 hour. We have taken additional steps to accelerate the recovery and are continuing to monitor the impact.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 18:04 UTC
Update
We are observing gradual recovery for Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility, with session output delayed approximately 1 hour. We have taken additional steps to accelerate the recovery and are continuing to monitor the impact.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 17:32 UTC
Update
We are seeing signs of recovery for Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility, but this recovery is slower than anticipated. We are pursuing additional mitigating measures to accelerate recovery.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 17:05 UTC
Update
Users are experiencing delays when starting tasks using Copilot Cloud Agent and are not be able to see the status of these tasks. Copilot Cloud Agent tasks are still being completed. We have identified the cause of the issue and are putting mitigations in place to return service to normal levels. We will provide another update about the expected recovery time shortly.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 16:14 UTC
Update
We are experiencing issues with Copilot Cloud Agent tasks, resulting in newly started tasks not properly displaying on-going progress. These Copilot Cloud Agent tasks are still being completed correctly but lack proper visibility. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide updates as we learn more.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 15:41 UTC
Update
We have identified the problematic component and are working to fail over to a healthy instance. Further updates will be provided as we perform mitigations.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 15:01 UTC
Update
Users may experience delays when starting tasks using Copilot Cloud Agent. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide updates as we learn more.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 14:51 UTC
Investigating
We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 14:43 UTC
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