OpenAI experienced a minor incident on May 1, 2026 affecting Images and Image Generation, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
ImagesImage Generation
Update timeline
- identified May 01, 2026, 01:52 PM UTC
Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Images (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- monitoring May 01, 2026, 02:52 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Images (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- resolved May 01, 2026, 02:53 PM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Images (Operational) Image Generation (Operational)