Potential disruption with our Agent Control Plane UI Settings

Severity: Major
Category: Misconfiguration
Service: GitHub

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Overview

Disruption with Agent Control Plane UI Settings, where enterprise administrators were unable to list agent session activity in the AI Controls view for approximately 12 days.

Impact

Enterprise administrators were unable to list agent session activity in the AI Controls view, but could view agent session activity in audit logs or directly navigate to individual agent session logs.

Trigger

A misconfiguration in a change deployed on November 25th that unintentionally prevented data from being published to an internal Kafka topic.

Detection

The issue was identified after investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services and missing Agent Session data on the AI Settings page.

Resolution

The problem was mitigated on December 8th by correcting the configuration issue, and GitHub is improving monitoring for data pipeline dependencies and enhancing pre-deployment validation.

Root Cause

A misconfiguration in a change deployed on November 25th that unintentionally prevented data from being published to an internal Kafka topic.