OpenAI incident

Elevated error rates with GPT 5.5

OpenAI is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Responses and Chat Completions, which began 58 min ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
May 11, 2026, 04:54 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 58m
Detected by Pingoru
May 11, 2026, 04:54 PM UTC

Affected components

ResponsesChat Completions

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 11, 2026, 04:11 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Responses (Degraded performance) Chat Completions (Degraded performance)

  2. identified May 11, 2026, 04:35 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 Chat Completions (Degraded performance) Responses (Degraded performance)

  3. monitoring May 11, 2026, 05:04 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Responses (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational)