Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Elevated FedRAMP API error rates for Astra and Sol

Resolved after 5 h 17 m (21 Oct 2026, 14:17–19:34 UTC), impact minor, affecting FedRAMP.

Timeline

1. 21 Oct 2026 at 14:17 UTC identified

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

2. 21 Oct 2026 at 17:03 UTC investigating

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

3. 21 Oct 2026 at 17:04 UTC monitoring

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

4. 21 Oct 2026 at 19:34 UTC resolved

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Affected components

• FedRAMP · FedRAMP: degraded for 3 h 13 m

What the crowd did

• 0 clicks, 3 zombies at their worst, 2 breaches, over 32 m — the siege in full

That is this site's own record of the crowd at OpenAI's gate, not anything OpenAI published.

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 16:24 UTC.

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