Outage in OpenAI
Image API requests failing with 401s
Resolved Minor
June 04, 2026 - Started 6 days ago
- Lasted 43 minutes
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
OpenAI's Image API experienced elevated 401 authentication errors for 43 minutes, preventing users from successfully making image generation requests. The incident affected the Images API service, causing authentication failures that blocked normal API functionality. OpenAI identified the issue and applied a mitigation to resolve the authentication errors.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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MONITORING
6 days ago - at 06/04/2026 07:36PM
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
IDENTIFIED
6 days ago - at 06/04/2026 07:12PM
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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