Outage in OpenAI

API Error Rates

Resolved Minor

March 04, 2026 - Started about 5 hours ago - Lasted 29 minutes

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

OpenAI experienced elevated error rates across all major services including ChatGPT, APIs, Codex, and other components for 29 minutes. Users encountered increased errors when attempting to use these services. The incident was identified and a mitigation was implemented to resolve the elevated error rates.

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

Components affected

OpenAI ChatGPT OpenAI APIs OpenAI Codex OpenAI Chat OpenAI Images OpenAI Embeddings OpenAI Batch OpenAI Fine-tuning OpenAI Files OpenAI Audio OpenAI Realtime OpenAI Responses OpenAI Moderations OpenAI Login

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

MONITORING about 5 hours ago - at 03/05/2026 01:07AM

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

We are working on implementing a mitigation.

IDENTIFIED about 5 hours ago - at 03/05/2026 12:47AM

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

We are working on implementing a mitigation.

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