OpenAI incident
Elevated latency for some API requests
Started
September 30, 2026 at 05:05 PM UTC
Duration
3h 30m
Resolved
September 30, 2026 at 08:35 PM UTC
Updates timeline
- Identified
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- Identified
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
- Identified
We have implemented an initial mitigation and are seeing improvements in API latency. We are continuing to investigate the scope of the issue and apply additional mitigations as needed. Some requests to the Responses and Chat Completions APIs may still experience elevated latency or timeouts.
- Monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- Resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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