OpenAI Status · History · Incident #138418

RESOLVED

We are seeing elevated error rates across API models

Minor · Started Sep 17, 2026 · 9:29 PM

Duration

21m
Severity

Minor
Detection lead

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User reports

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Summary

We are seeing elevated error rates across API models

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Started

Sep 17, 2026 · 9:29 PM
Resolved

Sep 17, 2026 · 9:50 PM
Duration

21m
Severity

Minor

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

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Identified
Sep 17 · 9:29 PM OpenAI

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.
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Monitoring
Sep 17 · 9:31 PM OpenAI

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
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Resolved
Sep 17 · 9:50 PM OpenAI

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Pattern

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