OpenAI incident

ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency

Resolved after 5 hours 23 minutes, affecting ChatGPT Work, on August 31, 2026.

monitoring Aug 31, 2026, 08:01 PM UTC

We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.

Started
Aug 31, 2026, 03:04 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 31, 2026, 08:28 PM UTC
Duration
5h 23m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 31, 2026, 03:04 PM UTC

Affected components

ChatGPT Work

Update timeline

  1. identified Aug 31, 2026, 03:04 PM UTC

    We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

  2. identified Aug 31, 2026, 03:21 PM UTC

    We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. Plus users are particularly impacted, where Work mode is currently unavailable. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

  3. identified Aug 31, 2026, 04:02 PM UTC

    User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing to work on a mitigation.

  4. identified Aug 31, 2026, 05:01 PM UTC

    User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.

  5. identified Aug 31, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC

    User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.

  6. identified Aug 31, 2026, 07:29 PM UTC

    User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.

  7. monitoring Aug 31, 2026, 08:01 PM UTC

    We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.

  8. resolved Aug 31, 2026, 08:28 PM UTC

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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