OpenAI incident

Increased error rate with image generation in the API

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on May 7, 2026 affecting Images, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 07, 2026, 09:38 AM UTC
Resolved
May 07, 2026, 09:38 AM UTC
Duration
—
Detected by Pingoru
May 07, 2026, 09:38 AM UTC

Affected components

Images

Update timeline

  1. monitoring May 07, 2026, 07:55 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Images (Degraded performance)

  2. resolved May 07, 2026, 09:38 AM UTC

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

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