Is GitHub Copilot down?

Back watches GitHub Copilot from your macOS menu bar and notifies you when completions return.

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What Back watches for GitHub Copilot

githubstatus.com

GitHub reports Copilot and Copilot AI Model Providers as separate components. The upstream models can be degraded while Copilot itself reports green, and completions still fail. Back reads both.

Copilot degrades quietly. Completions slow down or stop arriving rather than returning an error, so the outage is often noticed minutes after it starts.

When GitHub Copilot goes down, the ring in your menu bar turns red and Back tightens its checks to every 20 seconds. When it recovers you get one notification. “GitHub Copilot is back. You can continue working.” Nothing else. Outage alerts are off by default, so the message you get is the one you were waiting for.

Questions

Is GitHub Copilot down right now?

Back answers that from your menu bar rather than a browser tab. It reads every Copilot component, including the AI model providers behind it on githubstatus.com. If GitHub Copilot is down it checks every 20 seconds and notifies you as soon as it is usable again.

How will I know when GitHub Copilot is back up?

One notification: “GitHub Copilot is back. You can continue working.” No incident report, no buttons, nothing to dismiss. Outage alerts are off by default, so the only message you get is the one you were waiting for.

Does Back monitor anything other than GitHub Copilot?

Yes. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs. Back Free watches one service of your choosing. Back Pro watches all of them in the order you set.

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