OpenAI incident
Elevated Errors Affecting File Uploads and Image Generation
OpenAI experienced a minor incident on July 22, 2026 affecting File uploads and Image Generation, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 22, 2026, 07:32 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- investigating Jul 22, 2026, 07:54 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components File uploads (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- identified Jul 22, 2026, 09:26 AM 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 File uploads (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- monitoring Jul 22, 2026, 09:44 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components File uploads (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- resolved Jul 22, 2026, 02:39 PM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components File uploads (Operational) Image Generation (Operational)