Resolved after 7 hours 26 minutes, affecting Images and Image Generation, on September 8, 2026.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 08, 2026, 02:32 PM UTC
We’re investigating elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some requests may fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
- investigating Sep 08, 2026, 03:05 PM UTC
We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We’ve made changes aimed at reducing failures and are assessing their effect. Some requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
- investigating Sep 08, 2026, 03:38 PM UTC
"We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We saw an increase in failed Images API requests after our last update. We’re applying mitigations and assessing their effect. Some image requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more. "
- identified Sep 08, 2026, 04:35 PM UTC
We have identified the issue affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some image-generation requests may continue to fail.
- monitoring Sep 08, 2026, 07:11 PM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Sep 08, 2026, 09:59 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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