OpenAI incident

Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations for Free users

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

OpenAI experienced a minor incident on August 13, 2026 affecting Conversations, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 13, 2026, 11:58 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 13, 2026, 11:58 PM UTC
Duration
—
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 13, 2026, 11:58 PM UTC

Affected components

Conversations

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 13, 2026, 03:19 PM UTC

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

  2. identified Aug 13, 2026, 03:48 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We are still implementing the mitigation. Affected components Conversations (Degraded performance)

  3. monitoring Aug 13, 2026, 04:54 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Conversations (Degraded performance)

  4. monitoring Aug 13, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery following an issue with a downstream provider. Affected components Conversations (Degraded performance)

  5. resolved Aug 13, 2026, 11:58 PM UTC

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