Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Increased error rates

Resolved after 12 h 43 m (10 Aug 2026 14:04 – 11 Aug 2026 02:48 UTC), impact minor, affecting Conversations.

Timeline

1. 10 Aug 2026 at 14:04 UTC investigating

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

2. 10 Aug 2026 at 15:07 UTC monitoring

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. 11 Aug 2026 at 02:48 UTC resolved

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Affected components

• ChatGPT · Conversations: degraded for 12 h 43 m

Source

OpenAI's own report of this incident, on OpenAI's status page. This page is a record of OpenAI's own report; where the two disagree, theirs is right.

Last checked 8 Sep 2026 at 16:21 UTC.

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