Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Elevated ChatGPT conversation and Responses API errors

Resolved after 6 h 32 m (22 Oct 2026, 02:18–08:50 UTC), impact minor, affecting Conversations and Responses.

Timeline

1. 22 Oct 2026 at 02:18 UTC investigating

   This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. 22 Oct 2026 at 02:42 UTC monitoring

   This is impacting users in India, Japan, and Korea. We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

3. 22 Oct 2026 at 08:50 UTC resolved

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Affected components

• ChatGPT · Conversations: degraded for 6 h 32 m
• APIs · Responses: degraded for 6 h 32 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 16:25 UTC.

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