OpenAI incident

ChatGPT free users are seeing errors when having conversations

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on April 22, 2026 affecting Conversations, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 AM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 AM UTC

Affected components

Conversations

Update timeline

  1. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 12:56 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

  2. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Conversations (Partial outage)

  3. monitoring Apr 22, 2026, 02:38 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Conversations (Partial outage)

  4. resolved Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Conversations (Operational)