OpenAI Outage History

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OpenAI had 144 outages in the last 2 years totaling 55m of downtime — averaging 5.9 incidents per month.

There were 144 OpenAI outages since January 27, 2026 totaling 55m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.openai.com · Aggregated across OpenAI products

Minor April 29, 2026

Elevated errors for ChatGPT Go (5.3 Thinking)

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 29, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 29, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: LoginChatGPT AtlasFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Apr 29, 2026, 09:01 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that ChatGPT Go users are experiencing elevated errors. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Voice mode (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance)

  2. identified Apr 29, 2026, 09:25 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified elevated error rates impacting ChatGPT Go (5.3 Thinking). Other ChatGPT Go models are not affected at this time. The team is actively working on a mitigation. Affected components Agent (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance)

  3. monitoring Apr 29, 2026, 09:59 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Login (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) GPTs (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance)

  4. resolved Apr 29, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Search (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Login (Operational) Agent (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational)

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Minor April 29, 2026

Users may experience elevated error rate for gpt-4o-mini in the API

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 29, 2026, 05:41 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 29, 2026, 05:41 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: ResponsesChat Completions
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Apr 29, 2026, 05:12 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 Chat Completions (Degraded performance) Responses (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Apr 29, 2026, 05:19 AM UTC

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

  3. resolved Apr 29, 2026, 05:41 AM UTC

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

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Minor April 29, 2026

ChatGPT users may encounter issues in conversation

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 29, 2026, 05:27 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 29, 2026, 05:27 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: LoginResponsesFine-tuningImagesBatchAudioModerationsSoraCodex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionChatGPT AtlasFedRAMPEmbeddingsChat CompletionsRealtimeFilesFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIAppDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 29, 2026, 05:18 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Compliance API (Operational) Sora (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Search (Operational) Conversations (Partial outage) Realtime (Operational) Login (Operational) FedRAMP (Operational) Audio (Operational) Agent (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Images (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Codex API (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Files (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) CLI (Operational) App (Operational) Login (Operational) Batch (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) Responses (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Moderations (Operational)

  2. resolved Apr 29, 2026, 05:27 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components File uploads (Operational) Embeddings (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Codex Web (Operational) Login (Operational) Realtime (Operational) Files (Operational) Moderations (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) Sora (Operational) Audio (Operational) Login (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Images (Operational) Fine-tuning (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) Responses (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Codex API (Operational) Batch (Operational) Chat Completions (Operational) CLI (Operational) App (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational) Agent (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Search (Operational) FedRAMP (Operational)

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Minor April 28, 2026

Codex stream is disconnecting intermittently

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 28, 2026, 11:12 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 28, 2026, 11:12 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionApp
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Apr 28, 2026, 10:46 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 Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Apr 28, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Codex API (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance)

  3. resolved Apr 28, 2026, 11:12 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Codex Web (Operational) CLI (Operational) App (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational) Codex API (Operational)

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Minor April 28, 2026

Elevated error rates in Sora API for some users

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 28, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 28, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Sora
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 28, 2026, 01:52 PM UTC

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

  2. monitoring Apr 28, 2026, 02:18 PM UTC

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

  3. resolved Apr 28, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC

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

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Minor April 24, 2026

Elevated errors on model gpt-5.5 in codex

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 24, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 24, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex API
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 24, 2026, 09:24 PM UTC

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

  2. resolved Apr 24, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC

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

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Minor April 23, 2026

Elevated errors in Codex

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 23, 2026, 08:29 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 23, 2026, 08:29 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionApp
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 06:23 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We’re investigating elevated errors affecting Codex gpt-5.5 usage. Some users may see intermittent “not found” errors when starting or updating requests. We’re working to mitigate the issue and will share another update soon. Affected components VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance) CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance)

  2. resolved Apr 23, 2026, 08:29 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved GPT-5.5 is now available to all paid users in Codex. If you continue to see access issues, please update to the latest Codex version. We’ll share another update if needed. Affected components Codex Web (Operational) CLI (Operational) App (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational) Codex API (Operational)

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Minor April 23, 2026

Elevated error rates and latency for Moderation API

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 23, 2026, 05:57 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 23, 2026, 05:57 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Moderations
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 23, 2026, 04:44 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating elevated error rates and latency affecting the Moderation API. Affected components Moderations (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Apr 23, 2026, 05:41 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We applied mitigation by adding capacity, and error rates and latency are improving. Some API requests may continue to return errors or time out while recovery continues. We are monitoring to confirm the issue is fully resolved. Affected components Moderations (Degraded performance)

  3. resolved Apr 23, 2026, 05:57 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved Error rates and latency for the Moderation API have returned to normal levels after mitigation. Affected components Moderations (Operational)

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Minor April 22, 2026

Enterprise, business & education workspaces seeing elevated rate of conversation errors

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 22, 2026, 07:23 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 22, 2026, 07:23 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Conversations
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 01:51 PM UTC

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

  2. monitoring Apr 22, 2026, 02:17 PM UTC

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

  3. resolved Apr 22, 2026, 07:23 PM UTC

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

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Minor April 22, 2026

ChatGPT free users are seeing errors when having conversations

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Conversations
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 12:56 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

  2. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC

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

  3. monitoring Apr 22, 2026, 02:38 AM UTC

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

  4. resolved Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 AM UTC

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

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Minor April 21, 2026

Some users may encounter issues with GPT-5.4-C model in Codex

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 21, 2026, 04:33 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 21, 2026, 04:33 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Codex WebCodex APICLIVS Code extensionApp
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Apr 21, 2026, 02:34 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components CLI (Degraded performance) App (Degraded performance) VS Code extension (Degraded performance) Codex API (Degraded performance) Codex Web (Degraded performance)

  2. resolved Apr 21, 2026, 04:33 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components CLI (Operational) App (Operational) VS Code extension (Operational) Codex API (Operational) Codex Web (Operational)

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Minor April 20, 2026

Some users will see higher error rates on Codex

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 20, 2026, 11:13 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 20, 2026, 11:13 PM UTC
Duration
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Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Apr 20, 2026, 10:57 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

  2. resolved Apr 20, 2026, 11:13 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Minor April 20, 2026

Users may encounter issue with ChatGPT Business after upgrade or adding new seats for up to an hour

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 20, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 20, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC
Duration
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Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 20, 2026, 07:13 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

  2. monitoring Apr 20, 2026, 09:43 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

  3. resolved Apr 20, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Minor April 20, 2026

Elevated errors for ChatGPT conversations in Europe

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 20, 2026, 07:17 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 20, 2026, 07:17 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Conversations
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Apr 20, 2026, 05:29 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

  2. resolved Apr 20, 2026, 07:17 PM UTC

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

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Minor April 16, 2026

Responses API Streaming Error

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 16, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 16, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: Responses
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 16, 2026, 07:40 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We have identified an issue affecting some customers using the OpenAI Java SDK with Responses API streaming.

  2. monitoring Apr 16, 2026, 08:31 PM UTC

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

  3. resolved Apr 16, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC

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

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Minor April 15, 2026

ChatGPT FedRAMP workspaces not loading

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 15, 2026, 06:55 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 15, 2026, 06:55 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: FedRAMP
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Apr 15, 2026, 05:55 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components FedRAMP (Full outage)

  2. identified Apr 15, 2026, 06:40 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 FedRAMP (Full outage)

  3. monitoring Apr 15, 2026, 06:50 PM UTC

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

  4. resolved Apr 15, 2026, 06:55 PM UTC

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

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Minor April 14, 2026

Account Creation Issues

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 14, 2026, 05:09 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 14, 2026, 05:09 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: LoginLogin
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Apr 14, 2026, 04:49 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing account creation issues for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Login (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance)

  2. resolved Apr 14, 2026, 05:09 PM UTC

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

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Minor April 11, 2026

Some users may experience issues accessing ChatGPT

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 11, 2026, 01:48 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 11, 2026, 01:48 AM UTC
Duration
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Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 11, 2026, 01:04 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

  2. monitoring Apr 11, 2026, 01:37 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

  3. resolved Apr 11, 2026, 01:48 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Minor April 10, 2026

Issue with API platform login and account creation

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 10, 2026, 05:20 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 10, 2026, 05:20 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: LoginLogin
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 10, 2026, 05:10 AM UTC

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

  2. resolved Apr 10, 2026, 05:20 AM UTC

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

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Minor April 10, 2026

Issues with share link creation on web UI

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 10, 2026, 04:46 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 10, 2026, 04:46 AM UTC
Duration
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Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 10, 2026, 04:32 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

  2. resolved Apr 10, 2026, 04:46 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Minor April 8, 2026

Elevated Errors with Login

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 08, 2026, 05:44 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 08, 2026, 05:44 PM UTC
Duration
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Affected: LoginLogin
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Apr 08, 2026, 05:23 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing login issues for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation. Affected components Login (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Apr 08, 2026, 05:32 PM UTC

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

  3. resolved Apr 08, 2026, 05:44 PM UTC

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

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Minor April 7, 2026

Some users may experience issues accessing the ChatGPT website on VPN

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 07, 2026, 11:49 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 07, 2026, 11:49 AM UTC
Duration
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Affected: LoginChatGPT AtlasFile uploadsConversationsAgentVoice modeConnectors/AppsCompliance APIDeep ResearchSearchGPTsImage GenerationLogin
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 07, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Connectors/Apps (Partial outage) Compliance API (Partial outage) Image Generation (Partial outage) GPTs (Partial outage) ChatGPT Atlas (Partial outage) Login (Partial outage) File uploads (Partial outage) Voice mode (Partial outage) Search (Partial outage) Conversations (Partial outage) Agent (Partial outage) Deep Research (Partial outage)

  2. monitoring Apr 07, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Search (Partial outage) Conversations (Partial outage) Image Generation (Partial outage) Agent (Partial outage) ChatGPT Atlas (Partial outage) Login (Partial outage) File uploads (Partial outage) Voice mode (Partial outage) Compliance API (Partial outage) GPTs (Partial outage) Deep Research (Partial outage) Connectors/Apps (Partial outage)

  3. resolved Apr 07, 2026, 11:49 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Voice mode (Operational) Search (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Agent (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) Login (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) File uploads (Operational)

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