OpenAI experienced a minor incident on October 19, 2026 affecting Responses and Images and 1 more component, lasting 42m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
ResponsesImagesFilesFile uploadsImage Generation
Update timeline
- identified Oct 19, 2026, 01:31 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 Files (Degraded performance) Responses (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Images (Degraded performance)
- resolved Oct 19, 2026, 02:14 PM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components File uploads (Operational) Images (Operational) Files (Operational) Responses (Operational) Image Generation (Operational)