OpenAI incident

Elevated Errors Affecting ChatGPT Free and Guest Plan Users

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on March 17, 2026 affecting Conversations, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 17, 2026, 05:20 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 17, 2026, 05:20 AM UTC
Duration
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Detected by Pingoru
Mar 17, 2026, 05:20 AM UTC

Affected components

Conversations

Update timeline

  1. identified Mar 17, 2026, 02:58 AM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors on the ChatGPT free and guest plans. We are currently implementing a mitigation. Affected components Conversations (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Mar 17, 2026, 03:55 AM UTC

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

  3. resolved Mar 17, 2026, 05:20 AM UTC

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