Outage in OpenAI
We are seeing elevated error rates across API models
Resolved Minor
September 17, 2026 - Started 1 day ago
- Lasted 24 minutes
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
OpenAI experienced elevated error rates across virtually all platform components for approximately 24 minutes, affecting APIs, Chat, Images, Embeddings, Audio, Realtime, and several other services including Login. The issue was identified and a mitigation was applied, after which the team monitored recovery.
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Components affected
OpenAI APIs OpenAI Chat OpenAI Images OpenAI Embeddings OpenAI Batch OpenAI Fine-tuning OpenAI Files OpenAI Audio OpenAI Realtime OpenAI Responses OpenAI Moderations OpenAI LoginTrusted by 1,000+ teams
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MONITORING
1 day ago - at 09/17/2026 09:20PM
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
IDENTIFIED
1 day ago - at 09/17/2026 08:20PM
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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