OpenAI experienced a minor incident on March 13, 2026 affecting Responses, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Responses
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 13, 2026, 07:38 PM UTC
Status: Investigating Starting around 11:50am PT, customers may be experiencing errors when calling the Responses API with background:true. We are currently investigating the issue. Affected components Responses (Degraded performance)
- resolved Mar 13, 2026, 08:03 PM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Responses (Operational)