Disruption with some GitHub services

Severity: Critical
Category: Misconfiguration
Service: GitHub

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Overview

Disruption with some GitHub services, Copilot code completions experienced a significant service degradation, with up to 65% of code completion requests failed between 21:15 and 22:24 UTC on December 8, 2025.

Impact

Up to 65% of code completion requests failed

Trigger

Internal feature flag caused the primary model supporting Copilot code completions to appear unavailable to the backend service

Detection

Investigation started after reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services

Resolution

The issue was resolved once the flag was disabled

Root Cause

Internal feature flag caused the primary model supporting Copilot code completions to appear unavailable to the backend service