Outage in OpenAI ChatGPT

Elevated error rates for image generation

Resolved Minor

May 01, 2026 - Started about 8 hours ago - Lasted about 1 hour

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

OpenAI ChatGPT experienced elevated error rates affecting image generation, ChatGPT conversations, and APIs for 1 hour. Users reported chat timeouts, failed image generation, and the system appearing to process requests without producing results. The service team identified the issue and worked on implementing a mitigation.

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

Components affected

OpenAI ChatGPT ChatGPT OpenAI ChatGPT APIs OpenAI ChatGPT Image Generation OpenAI ChatGPT Images

Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

IDENTIFIED about 8 hours ago - at 05/01/2026 01:52PM

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.

We are working on implementing a mitigation.

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