OpenAI incident

API Error Rates

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, 01:12 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 05, 2026, 01:12 AM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 05, 2026, 01:12 AM UTC

Affected components

ResponsesFine-tuningImagesBatchAudioModerationsCodex WebEmbeddingsChat CompletionsRealtime

Update timeline

  1. identified Mar 05, 2026, 12:47 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 (Degraded performance) Audio (Degraded performance) Realtime (Degraded performance) Files (Degraded performance) Moderations (Degraded performance) Responses (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Sora (Degraded performance) Batch (Degraded performance) Chat Completions (Degraded performance) Fine-tuning (Degraded performance) Embeddings (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Mar 05, 2026, 01:07 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Moderations (Degraded performance) Responses (Degraded performance) Login (Operational) Images (Degraded performance) Chat Completions (Degraded performance) Realtime (Degraded performance) Embeddings (Degraded performance) Sora (Operational) Batch (Degraded performance) Audio (Degraded performance) Fine-tuning (Degraded performance) Files (Degraded performance)

  3. resolved Mar 05, 2026, 01:12 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Responses (Operational) Images (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Audio (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Realtime (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Batch (Operational) Files (Operational) Embeddings (Operational)