Outage in OpenAI
Responses API Background Mode Failures
Resolved Minor
October 31, 2025 - Started 5 months 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').
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MONITORING
5 months ago - at 10/31/2025 02:09PM
The traffic has stabilised and the incident is mitigated. We keep monitoring.
IDENTIFIED
5 months ago - at 10/31/2025 01:48PM
We have identified the source of the problem and are applying a fix.
IDENTIFIED
5 months 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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