OpenAI incident

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Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on February 12, 2026 affecting Conversations, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Feb 12, 2026, 04:59 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 12, 2026, 04:59 PM UTC
Duration
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Detected by Pingoru
Feb 12, 2026, 04:59 PM UTC

Affected components

Conversations

Update timeline

  1. investigating Feb 11, 2026, 04:29 PM UTC

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

  2. investigating Feb 12, 2026, 01:35 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are still investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Conversations (Degraded performance)

  3. monitoring Feb 12, 2026, 07:23 AM UTC

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

  4. resolved Feb 12, 2026, 04:59 PM UTC

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