OpenAI API Outage History
OpenAI API is up right nowPingoru has recorded 99 incidents for OpenAI API: 99 in the last 12 months and 28 in the last 90 days.
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| Month | Incidents | Hours with an open incident |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | 13 | 53 of 720 (7%) |
| May 2026 | 15 | 81 of 744 (11%) |
| June 2026 | 13 | 392 of 720 (54%) |
| July 2026 | 12 | 301 of 744 (40%) |
| August 2026 | 3 | 11 of 744 (1%) |
| September 2026 | 10 | 41 of 720 (6%) |
| October 2026 | 13 | 57 of 573 (10%) |
Incidents, newest first
Minor April 12, 2026 Elevated 401 errors for API endpoints 1d 12h Responses, Embeddings, Chat Completions
Started Apr 12, 2026, 08:40 PM UTC· resolved Apr 14, 2026, 08:41 AM UTC
- investigating Apr 12, 2026, 08:40 PM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- monitoring Apr 12, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- investigating Apr 13, 2026, 05:55 AM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- monitoring Apr 13, 2026, 06:34 AM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- identified Apr 13, 2026, 12:57 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- identified Apr 13, 2026, 05:10 PM UTC
We've identified that intermittent 401 errors on some API endpoints are being caused by timeouts. We have applied mitigations that reduced impact in parts of the system and are continuing to deploy additional fixes and monitor recovery until error rates return to expected levels.
- identified Apr 13, 2026, 08:14 PM UTC
We've identified that intermittent 401 errors on some API endpoints are being caused by timeouts. We have applied mitigations that reduced impact in parts of the system and are continuing to deploy additional fixes and monitor recovery until error rates return to expected levels.
- identified Apr 13, 2026, 11:26 PM UTC
We've identified that intermittent 401 errors on some API endpoints are being caused by timeouts. We have applied mitigations that reduced impact in parts of the system and are continuing to deploy additional fixes and monitor recovery until error rates return to expected levels.
- monitoring Apr 14, 2026, 01:26 AM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Apr 14, 2026, 08:41 AM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor April 6, 2026 GET /v1/responses endpoint is currently down and unable to serve requests 32m Responses
Started Apr 06, 2026, 10:07 AM UTC· resolved Apr 06, 2026, 10:39 AM UTC
- investigating Apr 06, 2026, 10:07 AM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- investigating Apr 06, 2026, 10:14 AM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- monitoring Apr 06, 2026, 10:23 AM UTC
We are mostly mitigated and remain observing recovery.
- resolved Apr 06, 2026, 10:39 AM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor April 2, 2026 High error rate for completionsapi-gpt-5-nano 2h 5m Chat Completions
Started Apr 02, 2026, 07:36 AM UTC· resolved Apr 02, 2026, 09:42 AM UTC
- identified Apr 02, 2026, 07:36 AM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring Apr 02, 2026, 08:03 AM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Apr 02, 2026, 09:42 AM UTC
The issue is now resolved.
Minor March 26, 2026 Responses API and Sora Increased Error Rates 1h 55m Responses
Started Mar 26, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC· resolved Mar 26, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC
- investigating Mar 26, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- investigating Mar 26, 2026, 09:35 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue. We can share this only affects users using store: true param.
- investigating Mar 26, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue. At this point, the issue is impacting a portion of Sora traffic, as well as Responses API using store: true param.
- investigating Mar 26, 2026, 10:55 PM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- identified Mar 26, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC
We have identified the root cause for this issue, and have implemented a mitigation. We are seeing error rates starting to decline and normal service recovering.
- monitoring Mar 26, 2026, 11:03 PM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Mar 26, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor March 24, 2026 Elevated error rates on Realtime API SIP endpoints 2h 55m Realtime
Started Mar 24, 2026, 05:24 PM UTC· resolved Mar 24, 2026, 08:20 PM UTC
- investigating Mar 24, 2026, 05:24 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- investigating Mar 24, 2026, 05:31 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the Realtime API SIP endpoints beginning at approximately midnight Pacific time. We are currently investigating the issue.
- identified Mar 24, 2026, 05:55 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. Root cause has been identified and mitigation is underway.
- monitoring Mar 24, 2026, 07:31 PM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Mar 24, 2026, 08:20 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor March 24, 2026 Some customer may encounter errors creating, updating projects, and uploading files 6h 58m Files, File uploads
Started Mar 24, 2026, 03:53 AM UTC· resolved Mar 24, 2026, 10:51 AM UTC
- investigating Mar 24, 2026, 03:53 AM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- investigating Mar 24, 2026, 04:24 AM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- identified Mar 24, 2026, 05:44 AM UTC
We are still implementing the mitigation.
- monitoring Mar 24, 2026, 09:15 AM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- monitoring Mar 24, 2026, 10:22 AM UTC
We have identified additional impacted services and are actively rolling out the required mitigation
- resolved Mar 24, 2026, 10:51 AM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor March 13, 2026 Responses API errors when using background mode 25m Responses
Started Mar 13, 2026, 07:38 PM UTC· resolved Mar 13, 2026, 08:03 PM UTC
- investigating Mar 13, 2026, 07:38 PM UTC
Starting around 11:50am PT, customers may be experiencing errors when calling the Responses API with background:true. We are currently investigating the issue.
- resolved Mar 13, 2026, 08:03 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor March 9, 2026 Codex unresponsive 2d 1h Codex Web
Started Mar 09, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC· resolved Mar 11, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC
- investigating Mar 09, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- identified Mar 09, 2026, 05:44 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring Mar 09, 2026, 08:45 PM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Mar 09, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
- identified Mar 10, 2026, 09:03 AM UTC
We are investigating renewed user reports of this issue. We have identified a likely root cause and are actively implementing mitigations to reduce impact while we work on a full fix.
- resolved Mar 10, 2026, 11:39 AM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
- identified Mar 10, 2026, 12:56 PM UTC
We have identified that some users are still experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- identified Mar 10, 2026, 02:22 PM UTC
We are still working on implementing a mitigation.
- identified Mar 10, 2026, 04:04 PM UTC
We are observing improvements while we continue to implement a mitigation.
- identified Mar 10, 2026, 06:41 PM UTC
We are still working on implementing a mitigation.
- identified Mar 10, 2026, 09:37 PM UTC
We are still working on implementing a mitigation.
- identified Mar 10, 2026, 11:16 PM UTC
We are still working on implementing a mitigation.
- identified Mar 11, 2026, 02:50 AM UTC
We are still working on implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring Mar 11, 2026, 05:31 AM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Mar 11, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor March 6, 2026 Issues with Increased Codex Usage Rate 6h 25m Codex Web
Started Mar 06, 2026, 06:35 PM UTC· resolved Mar 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
- identified Mar 06, 2026, 06:35 PM UTC
We have identified an issue causing Codex usage to be consumed faster than expected, which may cause some users to hit rate limits sooner than intended. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- identified Mar 06, 2026, 07:20 PM UTC
We have identified an issue causing Codex usage to be consumed faster than expected, which may cause some users to hit rate limits sooner than intended. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- identified Mar 06, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC
We have identified an issue causing Codex usage to be consumed faster than expected, which may cause some users to hit rate limits sooner than intended. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- resolved Mar 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor March 5, 2026 High Error Rate in Realtime API (EU) 1h Responses, Fine-tuning, Images, Batch and 20 more
Started Mar 05, 2026, 06:19 AM UTC· resolved Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
- identified Mar 05, 2026, 06:19 AM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring Mar 05, 2026, 06:49 AM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Mar 05, 2026, 07:19 AM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor March 5, 2026 API Error Rates 25m Responses, Fine-tuning, Images, Batch and 7 more
Started Mar 05, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC· resolved Mar 05, 2026, 01:12 AM UTC
- identified Mar 05, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring Mar 05, 2026, 01:07 AM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- resolved Mar 05, 2026, 01:12 AM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor March 3, 2026 Users may experience elevated error rate in Codex 2m Codex Web
Started Mar 03, 2026, 01:50 AM UTC· resolved Mar 03, 2026, 01:52 AM UTC
- investigating Mar 03, 2026, 01:50 AM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- resolved Mar 03, 2026, 01:52 AM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor March 2, 2026 File uploads and file processing failing 1h 44m Codex Web, ChatGPT Atlas, File uploads, Conversations and 9 more
Started Mar 02, 2026, 03:30 PM UTC· resolved Mar 02, 2026, 05:14 PM UTC
- investigating Mar 02, 2026, 03:30 PM UTC
Starting around 6:45 AM PT on March 2, 2026, we began seeing elevated errors affecting file uploads and file processing. Some users may experience failures or delays when uploading files or while newly uploaded content is being processed. We are actively investigating and working to restore normal service. We’ll share another update within 30 minutes.
- identified Mar 02, 2026, 04:47 PM UTC
We identified the issue and the team is working towards a mitigation
- resolved Mar 02, 2026, 05:14 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor February 25, 2026 Artifact generation (asking the model to generate a spreadsheet or slideshow) on ChatGPT is down for all users. 2h 50m Codex Web, ChatGPT Atlas, File uploads, Conversations and 9 more
Started Feb 25, 2026, 06:15 PM UTC· resolved Feb 25, 2026, 09:05 PM UTC
- investigating Feb 25, 2026, 06:15 PM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- resolved Feb 25, 2026, 09:05 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor February 19, 2026 Issues with API Platform Audit Logs – Responses, Fine-tuning, Images, Batch and 20 more
Started Feb 19, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC· resolved Feb 19, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC
- resolved Feb 19, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC
We have observed issues with API Platform audit logs.
Minor February 16, 2026 Increased error rates on Codex Cloud 20m Codex Web
Started Feb 16, 2026, 05:27 PM UTC· resolved Feb 16, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC
- identified Feb 16, 2026, 05:27 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for across Codex Cloud. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring Feb 16, 2026, 05:41 PM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Feb 16, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor February 12, 2026 high error rate in text-embedding-3-small 3h 13m Embeddings
Started Feb 12, 2026, 02:39 PM UTC· resolved Feb 12, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC
- identified Feb 12, 2026, 02:39 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring Feb 12, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. You may still be experiencing high latency.
- resolved Feb 12, 2026, 05:52 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor February 9, 2026 Codex Cloud issues due to Github Dependencies 3h 52m Codex Web
Started Feb 09, 2026, 04:30 PM UTC· resolved Feb 09, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC
- investigating Feb 09, 2026, 04:30 PM UTC
Codex Cloud is experiencing issues related to Github functionality due to outage in Github dependencies.
- monitoring Feb 09, 2026, 08:22 PM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Feb 09, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor February 4, 2026 Increased ChatGPT errors for some users 2h 39m Codex Web, ChatGPT Atlas, File uploads, Conversations and 9 more
Started Feb 04, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC· resolved Feb 05, 2026, 12:48 AM UTC
- identified Feb 04, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring Feb 05, 2026, 12:19 AM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- resolved Feb 05, 2026, 12:48 AM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor February 4, 2026 ChatGPT Availability Impacted 3h 59m Codex Web, ChatGPT Atlas, File uploads, Conversations and 9 more
Started Feb 04, 2026, 05:05 PM UTC· resolved Feb 04, 2026, 09:04 PM UTC
- identified Feb 04, 2026, 05:05 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- investigating Feb 04, 2026, 05:35 PM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- monitoring Feb 04, 2026, 05:43 PM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Feb 04, 2026, 09:04 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor February 3, 2026 Elevated error rates for finetuning jobs 2h 36m Fine-tuning
Started Feb 03, 2026, 08:55 PM UTC· resolved Feb 03, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC
- identified Feb 03, 2026, 08:55 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring Feb 03, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Feb 03, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor February 3, 2026 Elevated error rates for ChatGPT and Platform users 1h 41m Codex Web, ChatGPT Atlas, File uploads, Conversations and 9 more
Started Feb 03, 2026, 08:32 PM UTC· resolved Feb 03, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC
- identified Feb 03, 2026, 08:32 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- identified Feb 03, 2026, 08:44 PM UTC
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- monitoring Feb 03, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC
We have identified the issue, applied the necessary mitigations and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Feb 03, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Minor January 27, 2026 Elevated Codex Error Rate 2h 1m Codex Web
Started Jan 27, 2026, 09:01 AM UTC· resolved Jan 27, 2026, 11:03 AM UTC
- investigating Jan 27, 2026, 09:01 AM UTC
We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- monitoring Jan 27, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Jan 27, 2026, 11:03 AM UTC
All impacted services have now fully recovered.