Outage in OpenAI

Responses API Background Mode Failures

Resolved Minor
October 31, 2025 - Started about 14 hours ago - Lasted about 6 hours

Incident Report

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency and timeouts for requests to Responses API running in background mode ('background: true').
Components affected
OpenAI Responses OpenAI APIs

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
MONITORING about 13 hours ago - at 10/31/2025 02:09PM

The traffic has stabilised and the incident is mitigated. We keep monitoring.

IDENTIFIED about 14 hours ago - at 10/31/2025 01:48PM

We have identified the source of the problem and are applying a fix.

IDENTIFIED about 14 hours ago - at 10/31/2025 01:05PM

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency and timeouts for requests to Responses API running in background mode ('background: true').

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