OpenAI experienced a minor incident on September 8, 2026 affecting Images and Image Generation, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 08, 2026, 02:32 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We’re investigating elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some requests may fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more. Affected components Images (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- investigating Sep 08, 2026, 03:05 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We’ve made changes aimed at reducing failures and are assessing their effect. Some requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more. Affected components Images (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- investigating Sep 08, 2026, 03:38 PM UTC
Status: Investigating "We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We saw an increase in failed Images API requests after our last update. We’re applying mitigations and assessing their effect. Some image requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more. " Affected components Images (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- identified Sep 08, 2026, 04:35 PM UTC
Status: Identified We have identified the issue affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some image-generation requests may continue to fail. Affected components Images (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- monitoring Sep 08, 2026, 07:11 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Images (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- resolved Sep 08, 2026, 09:59 PM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Images (Operational) Image Generation (Operational)