OpenAI incident

Elevated latency for some API requests

Minor Resolved

Started

September 30, 2026 at 05:05 PM UTC

Duration

3h 30m

Resolved

September 30, 2026 at 08:35 PM UTC

Updates timeline

  1. Identified

    We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

  2. Identified

    We have identified that users are experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

  3. 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.

  4. Monitoring

    We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

  5. Resolved

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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