OpenAI incident

high error rate in text-embedding-3-small

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on February 12, 2026 affecting Embeddings, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Feb 12, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 12, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
Feb 12, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC

Affected components

Embeddings

Update timeline

  1. identified Feb 12, 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 Embeddings (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Feb 12, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. You may still be experiencing high latency. Affected components Embeddings (Operational)

  3. resolved Feb 12, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC

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