OpenAI incident

High Error Rate in Realtime API (EU)

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on March 5, 2026 affecting Responses and Fine-tuning and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC

Affected components

ResponsesFine-tuningImagesBatchAudioModerationsSoraCodex WebChatGPT AtlasEmbeddings

Update timeline

  1. identified Mar 05, 2026, 06:19 AM 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 (Operational) Batch (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Login (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Sora (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Search (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Realtime (Degraded performance) Audio (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Login (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Responses (Operational) Agent (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Files (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational)

  2. monitoring Mar 05, 2026, 06:49 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Image Generation (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Batch (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Search (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Login (Operational) Files (Operational) Responses (Operational) Images (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Agent (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Sora (Operational) Realtime (Degraded performance) Login (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) Audio (Operational) Compliance API (Operational)

  3. resolved Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Conversations (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Files (Operational) Batch (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Agent (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) Search (Operational) Realtime (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Login (Operational) Images (Operational) Audio (Operational) Sora (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Responses (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Login (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational)