Your connection, or their outage?
What you notice says a lot about which side the problem is on. Kilobat checks both sides and says which.
You noticeUsually it’sWhat Kilobat does
Only GitHub Copilot fails; everything else loads
An outage at GitHub, or something on the path to it only: DNS, a VPN or proxy, a blocked host.
Why can’t it connect? checks every layer to api.githubcopilot.com, then GitHub’s status page. If the page reports an outage and nothing on your side failed, it says “GitHub Copilot is down for everyone, not you”. Free
GitHub Copilot fails on this network, but works on mobile data
This network: an office, school, hotel or country rule, or its DNS.
Kilobat compares this network’s DNS with one encrypted lookup and tests the secure connection, then says “looks blocked on this network, not down”, with what it measured. Free
Everything is slow, GitHub Copilot included
Your own line: Wi-Fi, the router, your provider or DNS. Not GitHub Copilot.
Router and internet latency side by side show whether your own line is slow. Pro names the failing link, Wi-Fi, router, internet or DNS, with a fix. Free Pro
Requests to GitHub Copilot keep failing in the background
An outage at GitHub, while your line is fine.
One notification per incident, such as “Claude Code: Anthropic reports an outage — not your connection”, and the MCP tool service_status for agents. Free
GitHub’s status page is green, but GitHub Copilot still fails
The path from your Mac to GitHub Copilot: DNS, a VPN or proxy, IPv6, or the server’s answer.
“GitHub Copilot’s status page reports no problems”, then the layer that broke and what to try next. Free
Six links between you and GitHub Copilot.
GitHub Copilot loads only if every step works. A status page covers the last one; Kilobat checks the five before it too.
- Your MacA VPN, proxy or app in the way
- Wi-FiSignal, noise and band
- RouterLatency and loss to it
- ProviderLatency and loss beyond it
- DNSWhether api.githubcopilot.com resolves, and how fast
- GitHub CopilotGitHub’s status page, read live
What Kilobat watches
How Kilobat knows it’s GitHub Copilot.
Kilobat matches apps and sites to the right status page by bundle ID and domain, so a failing GitHub Copilot points at GitHub’s status page, not a guess.
On your Mac
The copilot process.
Copilot talks to its own hosts from VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode and the CLI, so Kilobat finds it by connection and reads the Copilot component of GitHub’s page.
The same status page also covers GitHub.
What’s free, and what Pro adds
Free, for good Free
- Is it them or me? Status pages for 72 services, GitHub Copilot included
- The outage at the top of Health, and in a connection check
- A notification per outage while an app keeps failing
- Whether the calling service had an outage, on every call card
kilobat down, kilobat why and the MCP tool service_status- Blocked on this network, or not available in your region, said as measured
Pro, $29 once Pro
- Findings with a fix for router, DNS and login-page trouble
- Possible causes of call freezes
- Outage and latency history for your own line
- Signal radar and channel crowding
Pro is $29 once for two Macs, with a 7-day free trial and 14-day refunds. Free for students.
Next time GitHub Copilot stalls, know whose problem it is.