OpenAI Outage History

Started Sep 17, 2026, 08:20 PM UTC· resolved Sep 17, 2026, 09:50 PM UTC

1. identified Sep 17, 2026, 08:20 PM UTC

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

2. monitoring Sep 17, 2026, 09:20 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. resolved Sep 17, 2026, 09:50 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 17, 2026, 07:03 PM UTC· resolved Sep 17, 2026, 08:24 PM UTC

1. investigating Sep 17, 2026, 07:03 PM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Some users may experience failures when starting or running Work tasks.

2. investigating Sep 17, 2026, 07:38 PM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

3. identified Sep 17, 2026, 07:57 PM UTC

   We are still implementing the mitigation.

4. resolved Sep 17, 2026, 08:24 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 16, 2026, 06:44 PM UTC· resolved Sep 16, 2026, 07:34 PM UTC

1. investigating Sep 16, 2026, 06:44 PM UTC

   We are investigating elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Work. We will provide updates as we learn more.

2. investigating Sep 16, 2026, 07:15 PM UTC

   We are continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Work. We will provide updates as we learn more.

3. monitoring Sep 16, 2026, 07:20 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

4. resolved Sep 16, 2026, 07:34 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 15, 2026, 11:50 PM UTC· resolved Sep 16, 2026, 12:30 AM UTC

1. investigating Sep 15, 2026, 11:50 PM UTC

   We are experiencing elevated error rates for image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare in the API. Our team is working to mitigate the issue. We will provide another update as more information becomes available.

2. monitoring Sep 15, 2026, 11:58 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. resolved Sep 16, 2026, 12:30 AM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 15, 2026, 04:52 PM UTC· resolved Sep 15, 2026, 04:54 PM UTC

1. monitoring Sep 15, 2026, 04:52 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

2. resolved Sep 15, 2026, 04:54 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 15, 2026, 07:12 AM UTC· resolved Sep 15, 2026, 07:53 AM UTC

1. investigating Sep 15, 2026, 07:12 AM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. monitoring Sep 15, 2026, 07:24 AM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. resolved Sep 15, 2026, 07:53 AM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 14, 2026, 08:30 PM UTC· resolved Sep 14, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC

1. monitoring Sep 14, 2026, 08:30 PM UTC

   Since 1:30 PM Pacific Time on September 14, customers using the Agents API have experienced delays or been unable to start turns in managed sessions.

2. monitoring Sep 14, 2026, 11:28 PM UTC

   We have applied mitigations and are seeing recovery, but the service has not fully recovered. We are continuing to monitor recovery.

3. resolved Sep 14, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC

   The issue affecting the Agents API has been resolved. Managed sessions are now processing turns normally.

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Started Sep 14, 2026, 03:58 PM UTC· resolved Sep 15, 2026, 03:11 AM UTC

1. monitoring Sep 14, 2026, 03:58 PM UTC

   Earlier today, some ChatGPT Plus users using Work Mode experienced errors starting or resuming tasks, or had limited access to workspace tools and files. We have applied a mitigation and service has recovered. We are monitoring the results.

2. monitoring Sep 14, 2026, 07:42 PM UTC

   We have applied additional mitigations for Work Mode. We are monitoring to confirm that workspace tools and files are functioning normally for ChatGPT Plus users.

3. resolved Sep 15, 2026, 03:11 AM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 14, 2026, 02:46 AM UTC· resolved Sep 14, 2026, 03:57 AM UTC

1. investigating Sep 14, 2026, 02:46 AM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. investigating Sep 14, 2026, 02:59 AM UTC

   We are investigating elevated error rates affecting Codex and ChatGPT Work

3. monitoring Sep 14, 2026, 03:42 AM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

4. resolved Sep 14, 2026, 03:57 AM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 13, 2026, 04:56 PM UTC· resolved Sep 13, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC

1. investigating Sep 13, 2026, 04:56 PM UTC

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

2. monitoring Sep 13, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. resolved Sep 13, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 13, 2026, 09:26 AM UTC· resolved Sep 13, 2026, 10:53 AM UTC

1. investigating Sep 13, 2026, 09:26 AM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. identified Sep 13, 2026, 09:32 AM UTC

   We have identified an upstream GitHub service disruption affecting review publication and pull request creation in Codex. Follow GitHub’s status page "GitHub’s status page": https://www.githubstatus.com/ for updates. We expect these workflows to recover as GitHub restores service. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

3. identified Sep 13, 2026, 09:35 AM UTC

   We have identified an upstream GitHub service disruption affecting review publication and pull request creation in Codex. Follow GitHub’s status page "GitHub’s status page": https://www.githubstatus.com/ for updates. We expect these workflows to recover as GitHub restores its services.

4. resolved Sep 13, 2026, 09:53 AM UTC

   Github has applied the mitigation and we are monitoring the recovery.

5. monitoring Sep 13, 2026, 09:55 AM UTC

   Github have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

6. resolved Sep 13, 2026, 10:53 AM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 11, 2026, 04:22 PM UTC· resolved Sep 12, 2026, 01:57 AM UTC

1. investigating Sep 11, 2026, 04:22 PM UTC

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

2. identified Sep 11, 2026, 05:16 PM UTC

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

3. investigating Sep 11, 2026, 05:17 PM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

4. monitoring Sep 11, 2026, 09:51 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

5. monitoring Sep 12, 2026, 01:38 AM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

6. resolved Sep 12, 2026, 01:57 AM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 11, 2026, 09:08 AM UTC· resolved Sep 11, 2026, 11:21 AM UTC

1. identified Sep 11, 2026, 09:08 AM UTC

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

2. monitoring Sep 11, 2026, 10:09 AM UTC

   We have brought additional capacity online and are seeing improvements for some GPT-5.6 Sol API traffic. We continue to mitigate elevated errors affecting Chat Completions and Responses and are monitoring recovery

3. resolved Sep 11, 2026, 11:21 AM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 10, 2026, 07:49 PM UTC· resolved Sep 10, 2026, 09:30 PM UTC

1. investigating Sep 10, 2026, 07:49 PM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. investigating Sep 10, 2026, 07:50 PM UTC

   We are investigating elevated errors affecting some ChatGPT Work users. Some users may encounter server errors. We are working to mitigate the issue.

3. monitoring Sep 10, 2026, 08:31 PM UTC

   We have applied mitigation and are monitoring recovery.

4. resolved Sep 10, 2026, 09:30 PM UTC

   All impacted services are now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 10, 2026, 02:21 AM UTC· resolved Sep 10, 2026, 02:28 PM UTC

1. investigating Sep 10, 2026, 02:21 AM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. identified Sep 10, 2026, 06:01 AM UTC

   We are still implementing the mitigation.

3. identified Sep 10, 2026, 09:37 AM UTC

   We are still implementing the mitigation.

4. monitoring Sep 10, 2026, 12:06 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

5. resolved Sep 10, 2026, 02:28 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 09, 2026, 05:29 PM UTC· resolved Sep 09, 2026, 05:54 PM UTC

1. investigating Sep 09, 2026, 05:29 PM UTC

   Some Codex users may be experiencing unexpected usage limit resets.

2. identified Sep 09, 2026, 05:40 PM UTC

   We've identified the issue and are working on a fix.

3. monitoring Sep 09, 2026, 05:45 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

4. resolved Sep 09, 2026, 05:54 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 09, 2026, 02:51 PM UTC· resolved Sep 09, 2026, 04:21 PM UTC

1. investigating Sep 09, 2026, 02:51 PM UTC

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

2. monitoring Sep 09, 2026, 03:44 PM UTC

   We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring the impacted services.

3. resolved Sep 09, 2026, 04:21 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 08, 2026, 02:39 PM UTC· resolved Sep 08, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC

1. investigating Sep 08, 2026, 02:39 PM UTC

   Some file uploads are failing to process. Successful uploads may take longer than usual to become available. We’re investigating and will share another update as we learn more.

2. investigating Sep 08, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

3. investigating Sep 08, 2026, 03:37 PM UTC

   We’re continuing to investigate file-upload processing failures and delays in ChatGPT. Some files may appear uploaded but remain unavailable while processing; other uploads may fail. We have not confirmed recovery and will share another update as we learn more.

4. identified Sep 08, 2026, 04:29 PM UTC

   We have identified the issue causing file-upload processing failures and delays in ChatGPT. Some files may remain unavailable while processing, and some uploads may fail.

5. monitoring Sep 08, 2026, 05:48 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

6. resolved Sep 08, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 08, 2026, 02:32 PM UTC· resolved Sep 08, 2026, 09:59 PM UTC

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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. "

4. 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.

5. monitoring Sep 08, 2026, 07:11 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

6. resolved Sep 08, 2026, 09:59 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 04, 2026, 07:00 AM UTC· resolved Sep 04, 2026, 10:46 AM UTC

1. investigating Sep 04, 2026, 07:00 AM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. monitoring Sep 04, 2026, 09:47 AM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. resolved Sep 04, 2026, 10:46 AM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 03, 2026, 02:43 PM UTC· resolved Sep 03, 2026, 04:55 PM UTC

1. investigating Sep 03, 2026, 02:58 PM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. monitoring Sep 03, 2026, 03:22 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. identified Sep 03, 2026, 03:43 PM UTC

   We still experiencing degraded performance.

4. monitoring Sep 03, 2026, 03:50 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

5. resolved Sep 03, 2026, 04:55 PM UTC

   The issue causing elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex has been resolved. Some Codex remote control users may need to pair their mobile device again following this incident.

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Started Sep 03, 2026, 12:04 AM UTC· resolved Sep 03, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC

1. investigating Sep 03, 2026, 12:04 AM UTC

   ChatGPT Work Mode is experiencing high error rates. We are investigating the issue.

2. resolved Sep 03, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Sep 02, 2026, 06:13 PM UTC· resolved Sep 02, 2026, 06:45 PM UTC

1. investigating Sep 02, 2026, 06:13 PM UTC

   We are investigating an issue preventing some users from creating new accounts. We will share updates as we learn more.

2. monitoring Sep 02, 2026, 06:39 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring recovery.

3. resolved Sep 02, 2026, 06:45 PM UTC

   The issue affecting new account creation has been resolved.

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Started Sep 01, 2026, 12:38 AM UTC· resolved Sep 01, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC

1. investigating Sep 01, 2026, 12:38 AM UTC

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. monitoring Sep 01, 2026, 12:52 AM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. resolved Sep 01, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Started Aug 31, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC· resolved Sep 01, 2026, 07:05 PM UTC

1. identified Aug 31, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

   We have identified an issue causing elevated latency for some Responses API requests. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

2. monitoring Aug 31, 2026, 11:13 PM UTC

   We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.

3. monitoring Sep 01, 2026, 01:46 AM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

4. identified Sep 01, 2026, 03:15 PM UTC

   We have identified elevated latencies impacting Responses API on the US endpoint.

5. identified Sep 01, 2026, 05:36 PM UTC

   We are implementing the mitigation.

6. monitoring Sep 01, 2026, 06:09 PM UTC

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

7. resolved Sep 01, 2026, 07:05 PM UTC

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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