Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Elevated errors with GPT-5.6 Instant in FedRAMP workspaces

Resolved after 21 m (7 Oct 2026 23:42 – 8 Oct 2026 00:03 UTC), impact minor, affecting FedRAMP.

Timeline

1. 7 Oct 2026 at 23:42 UTC investigating

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

2. 7 Oct 2026 at 23:48 UTC monitoring

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery and no longer seeing any errors.

3. 8 Oct 2026 at 00:03 UTC resolved

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Affected components

• FedRAMP · FedRAMP: degraded for 6 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 30 Oct 2026 at 16:27 UTC.

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