OpenAI incident

Elevated Image Generation Error Rate in ChatGPT

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on July 28, 2026 affecting Image Generation, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 28, 2026, 03:15 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 28, 2026, 03:15 PM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 28, 2026, 03:15 PM UTC

Affected components

Image Generation

Update timeline

  1. identified Jul 28, 2026, 02:39 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 Image Generation (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Jul 28, 2026, 03:13 PM UTC

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

  3. resolved Jul 28, 2026, 03:15 PM UTC

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