OpenAI incident
Elevated latency in the Responses API
Started
August 31, 2026 at 10:27 PM UTC
Duration
20h 37m
Resolved
September 1, 2026 at 07:05 PM UTC
Updates timeline
- Identified
We have identified an issue causing elevated latency for some Responses API requests. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- Monitoring
We have applied a mitigation and are monitoring recovery.
- Monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- Identified
We have identified elevated latencies impacting Responses API on the US endpoint.
- Identified
We are implementing the mitigation.
- Monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- Resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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