OpenAI incident

Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Work mode

Major Resolved

Started

September 17, 2026 at 07:03 PM UTC

Duration

1h 21m

Resolved

September 17, 2026 at 08:24 PM UTC

Updates timeline

  1. Investigating

    We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Some users may experience failures when starting or running Work tasks.

  2. Investigating

    We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

  3. Identified

    We are still implementing the mitigation.

  4. Resolved

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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