Disruption connecting to Codespaces

Severity: MajorCategory: DependenciesService: GitHub
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Overview
Between January 14, 2025, 19:13 UTC and 21:10 UTC, the Codespaces service experienced degradation, leading to connection failures with running codespaces. The incident self-mitigated as new connections replaced stale ones. Coordination is underway to ensure connection stability with future deployments.
Impact
Users with bad connections could not use impacted codespaces until they were stopped and restarted. 7.6% failure rate for connections during the degradation.
Trigger
bad connections left behind after a deployment in an upstream dependency
Detection
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Codespaces
Resolution
The incident self-mitigated as new connections replaced stale ones.
Root Cause
bad connections left behind after a deployment in an upstream dependency that the Codespaces service still provided to clients.
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